Lyrical Quotes - Page 2

• Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers,
  Wannabe MC's, but really good triers,
  Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored,
  A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford!

  KRS-One

  Liars, Rap, Tired

  Song: Mortal Thought, Album: Return of the Boom Bap, 1993

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• You can find me in the melodies, the chord progressions, the song style and structure. The lyrical places you fine me most are in the lyrics that 'show' more than 'tell.' I like to describe what the listener is seeing and let them make up the middle rather than telling them.

  Kristian Bush

  Song, Writing, Style

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• I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips.

  Kanye West

  Rap, Miracle, Mayonnaise

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• I'm the lyrical vendor, hip-hop is my shop

  Lil Wayne

  Rap, Hip Hop, Hips

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• 'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.

  Serj Tankian

  Fun, Journey, Rocks

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• I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.

  Zadie Smith

  Giving Up, Eye, Ideas

  "Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays". Book by Zadie Smith, October 26, 2010.

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• I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

  Carlos Santana

  Player, Wake Up, Laurels

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• There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry. He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains moments of nearly proselike colloquial narrative along with moments of powerful lyrical tension. There is a movement of extremes, from powerful tonality to near atonality, and I like this a great deal; it's a stance that very effectively catches the spirit that makes work in poetry possible nowadays.

  Giovanni Raboni

  Strong, Powerful, Movement

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• I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.

  R. Kelly

  Romantic, Sexy, Track

  FaceBook post by R. Kelly from Mar 16, 2016

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• Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Challenges, Way, Projects

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• I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to be something easy on the eyes. Like a record company telling Picasso that we don't need these abstract interpretations of life, where people have to sit down and look at it and break it down.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Rap, Eye, People

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• Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Thinking, People, Brain

  "Jarvis Cocker: 'Music has changed. It's not as central, it's more like a scented candle'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2011.

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• When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

  Tim Burton

  Growing Up, Simplicity, Drs

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• That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

  Ville Valo

  Writing, People, Romance

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• Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fashion, Two, Mind

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• She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly voices that enchanted her. Now she saw herself as one of those amoureuses whom she had so envied: she was becoming, in reality, one of that gallery of fictional figures; the long dream of her youth was coming true.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dream, Memories, Reality

  Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

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• The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

  Herb Alpert

  Singing, Trumpets, Instruments

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• It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Art, Strive

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Drumming

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• It is true I do not like fire. But Leo Valdez's flames are not strong enough to trouble me." Somewhere behind Hazel, a soft, lyrical voice said, "What about my flames, old friend?" "You," he said from Percy's mouth. "Me," Hecate agreed. "It has been millennia since I fought at the side of a demigod. What do you say? Shall we play with fire?

  Rick Riordan

  Strong, Play, Voice

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• Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Ambition, Miracle

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• I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Long, Doe, Lovers

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Art, Book, Hero

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• Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

  George Santayana

  Summer, Nature, Fate

  George Santayana (1967). “Animal Faith and Spiritual Life”, Irvington Pub

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• 'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

  Luke Bryan

  Country, Song, Tailgates

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