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I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it. -- Stephen Sondheim
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling. -- Cass McCombs
Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India. -- Dayananda Saraswati
My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric. -- Ben Folds
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form. -- Russell Smith
Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand? -- Burning Spear
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be. -- Chris Cornell
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
In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music. -- Dinah Shore
I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first. -- Neil Diamond
Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it's a very, very intense kind of focus. -- Debbie Harry
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
I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling. -- Waylon Jennings
My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah." -- Mike Stud
I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric -- Frank Zappa
Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do. -- Stephen Sondheim

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