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• A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

  Peter Straub

  Brave, Risk, Enormous

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• As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.

  Shane Carruth

  Execution, Sound, Want

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• Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle of a few brave souls to live and work respectfully in what's left of our western wilderness...The Lives of Rocks is his most lyrical and powerful book to date...a masterwork.

  Howard Frank Mosher

  Powerful, Struggle, Book

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• I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

  David Nicholls

  Night, Romance, Atmosphere

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• Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

  Victor Hugo

  Drama, Epic, History

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo ...”

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• ... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.

  Robin Morgan

  Book, Self, Tears

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly driving rhythm that flows from poignantly spent ideas.

  Claude Brown

  Ideas, Soul, Quality

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• These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very much of the capacious, fierce and intelligent work of Adrienne Rich.

  Tony Hoagland

  Moving, Ambition, Intelligent

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• For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Laughter, Differences, Public Opinion

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• I'm selling my soul to Hollywood Records. I love you like a love song baby, a sinful, miracle, lyrical. He ate my soul. He's Lucifer. I'm torn I'm selling my soul to the rhythm because I'm become so possessed with the music he plays. I chose a path and I'm not looking back.

  Selena Gomez

  Song, Baby, Love You

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• Carol Guess's poems are sexy, intuitive, angry, and hopeful. These lyrical narratives measure the impossibly small distance between love and fear. They are a reminder that we're all vulnerable little vessels filled by the people who can break us.

  Zachary Schomburg

  Sexy, Distance, People

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• The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Jobs, Emotional, Thinking

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2006.

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• There were various different keys in which European history had tended to be written. One is the lyrical key, the idea that somehow, in Bretton-Woods in 1945, a bunch of well-intentioned men got together and said, "This can't go on; let's build a European Union." And it just wasn't like that.

  Tony Judt

  Men, Together, Different

  "Postwar". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. December 20, 2005.

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  In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

  Paul McCartney

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Song: Golden Slumbers

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• Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

  Joe Cocker

  Friendship, Best Friend, Song

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• I get by with a little help from my friends.

  John Lennon

  Best Friend, Friendship, Song

  "Song: "With a Little Help from My Friends"". 1967.

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• I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

  John Legend

  Writing, Ideas, People

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2006.

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• I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

  Talib Kweli

  Education, Skills, Community

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• Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

  Chris Abani

  Beautiful, First Love, Fiction

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• I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

  Hank Azaria

  Hate, Writing, Fans

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and rather than just doing one thing when I make an album, the challenge to myself is to write all these diverse tracks, but to make them work. It's like a jigsaw because if you've got a lyrical track going into a hard rock track... it's got to work. You've got to write things that will work together.

  Jack Bruce

  Writing, Rocks, Track

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• I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one that doesn't use colloquialisms, lyrical flourishes, heavy supplies of metaphor, etc., is a style, and it becomes a writer's characteristic style just as much as a thicker, richer deployment of idiom and vocabulary.

  Lydia Davis

  Believe, Vocabulary, Deployment

  Interview with Sarah Manguso, www.believermag.com. January 2008.

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• As I have continued to make music and progress as an artist, I think I am steadily getting better at expanding my lyrical content and defining who I am as an artist.

  Mike Stud

  Artist, Thinking, Who I Am

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• Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly.

  Matt Smith

  Always Trying, Important, Complement

  Source: www.angelicwarlord.com

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• What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with verses and be lyrical and just stand for the art.

  Joell Ortiz

  Art, Children, Nice

  Source: thecomeupshow.com

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