Good Lyric Quotes

• Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative writing. ...metaphors support lyrics like bones.

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  Pat Pattison

  Writing   Support   Creative  

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• I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.

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  Obie Trice

  Thinking   Needs   Hook  

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

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  Neil Farber

  Thinking   Good Lyric   Mood  

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A good song is a nice set of chords and some good lyrics; a great song is a song that reinvents itself over time. That you can always find something interesting in the more you listen to it - it keeps revealing something to you.

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  Bryce Dessner

  Song   Nice   Interesting  

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• I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.

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  Leonard Cohen

  Song   Art   Reality  

  "Leonard Cohen at 80". Interview with Mark Ellen, www.thetimes.co.uk. September 19, 2014.

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• The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you've got to really listen hard to somebody who's doing a good melody and a good lyric.

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  Barry Manilow

  Country   Interesting   Gone  

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol Dunkley, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown you know. They have unique voice and sweet melody and you know, good lyrics those time yeh. The music was very nice in that time still seen, because you find that even the musical part, the musicians concentrate more on the melody than everything, more than how they concentrate on the money that time you Know

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  Gregory Isaacs

  Sweet   Nice   Artist  

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• I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

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  Vanessa Paradis

  Good Lyric   Terrible   My Own  

  "How I get dressed" by Neil Norman, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2008.

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