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When you're listening to club music, there's no reward. The reward isn't, 'Oh, here's the chorus, here's the lyric that makes sense.' You have to enjoy what it is. You have to enjoy that there's no conclusion. Robyn
Music You Reward Listening Sense Club Enjoy Lyric Makes Conclusion Oh Chorus Here
The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men who'd had experience in life. How can you write a lyric if you haven't really lived life? Rudy Vallee
Life You Experience Veterans Men Lyric Write Had Songs Written Mostly How Were Really Popular Lived Early
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. Salvatore Quasimodo
Man Valid Lyric Dramatic Religious Civic Only Poetry Categories Content Endorsement Formal Which Expression
The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own. Sheryl Crow
Great Me You Song Own Lyric Once Projecting Has-Been Ability Consternation Adopt Look Make Because Been Source Listener Video Forum Start
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it. Stephen Sondheim
You Language Rich Too Lyric Lyrics Poets Writers Generally Drowned Make Because Get Poor Why
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it. Stephen Sondheim
Music Writing Lyric Backed Fell Because
The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary. Susan Stewart
Lyric Poetry Shape Like Greater Commentary Itself Romantic Lends Length English
More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning. Susan Stewart
Grief Suffering Writing Collective Lyric Addressing Consolation More Rituals Emotion Songs Tensions Powerful Between Like Provide Discovered Than Mourning Often Social Means
Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words. Thurston Moore
Youth People Writing Words Three Lyric Through Had Sonic Sonic Youth Involvement Lot Process Interest Interesting Expression Now
I write a lyric, but when I reread it, I think it's awful and either hide it or crumple it up. Tiffany Darwish
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You can't tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to 'Phantom of the Opera' without also referencing how much teasing he gets at school. Tim Federle
You School Every Lyric Tell He Opera Also Knows Without Boy How How Much Gets Story Much Who Phantom
There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly. Tim Finn
Music Will Other Lyric Finally Some Through Had Songs Come Does Years Quickly Common Where Happen Then Really
I still get a little nervous before performing. You don't want to forget a lyric; you don't want to make a mistake. I still get butterflies. You can try to judge an audience, but you can only really judge things by the applause. Tony Bennett
You Mistake Judge Try Nervous Before Lyric Only Performing Make Audience Still Forget Get Want Little Really Applause Things Butterflies
The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form. Trent Reznor
Hate Writing First Lyric Lyrics Machine Pretty Songs Journal Wrote Came Private Form Which Realized Ever Set
I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric. Trey Anastasio
Song Half Lyric Step Understand Effect
I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career. Victoria Clark
Good Try Long Singing Lyric Kind Haul Something Voice Long Haul Outside Step Over Soprano Sustain Different Different Kind Your Career
That's one of the reasons I got into country music: because of the craft of that lyric and how much you could put into three minutes. Walker Hayes
Music You Three Country Lyric Minutes Could Put Country Music Because Got How How Much Craft Much Reasons
Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy. will.i.am
Today Music Listening Space Looking Lyric Kicking Flying Kid Kids Dinosaurs Picking Pictures Like Sheet Around Up Wondering Hanging Wanna Wants Moving Who Why
I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny. Harry Connick, Jr.
Funny Me You People Somebody Think Lyric Out Shaken Could Know Operating Spotlight Go Brain Very Forget Get Just Mean Much Really
'Pain' is more indicative of what I like to do. I'm lyric-conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records. Betty Wright
Writing Advice Pain Lyric Tell Indicative Give More Records Column Instead Like Dear Stories Conscious
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