Lyrical Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.

  Brett Dennen

  Clever, People, Trying

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• The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.

  Robert Morgan

  Character, Voice, Hiking

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• They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

  Marc Edwards

  Littles, Sometimes, Abstract

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• The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

  James Stephens

  Poet, Duty

  James Stephens, Shirley Stevens Mulligan (2006). “The Poems of James Stephens”, A Colin Smythe Publication

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• Lil Wayne, I ain't mad at him man, he did his thing, he stepped up his lyrical game, he the most improved rapper out of anybody. I've seen him from childhood status to what he's doing right now. He stepped up his rap game, so he deserves the success he had. And no one else was even doing near what he was doing, so I applaud him too.

  DJ Premier

  Rap, Men, Mad

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• What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold, coil, polish, and plane them into patterns, sequences, sculptures, fugues of sound expressing some lyrical impulse, some spiritual doubt or conviction, some dimly realized truth I must try to reach and realize.

  Dylan Thomas

  Spiritual, Doubt, Trying

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• How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch

  Karsten Harries

  Despair, Kitsch, Easy

  Karsten Harries (1968). “Meaning of Modern Art”, p.82, Northwestern University Press

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• I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Singers, Fame, Pops

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• At a time when public finances are under huge strain, we surely do not need to pay celebrities to wax lyrical to mandarins. Unless American comedians can make the Home Office fit for purpose, the taxpayer won't be laughing.

  Chris Huhne

  Home, Laughing, Office

  "Comic Ruby Wax runs workshops for Home Office staff". www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2010.

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• Why don't you conceive of God as an ally who is coming, who has been approaching since time began, the one who will someday arrive, the fruit of a tree whose leaves we are? Why not project his birth into the future, and live your life as an excruciating and lyrical moment in the history of a prodigious pregnancy?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Pregnancy, Tree, Live Your Life

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• Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

  Novalis

  Epic, Men, Dramatic

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.65, SUNY Press

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• I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.

  Stephen Lang

  Race, People, Want

  "EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Lang Talks White Irish Drinkers" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 24, 2011.

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