
“As a poet I am an emotional accident; a lyrical tourist.”
Source: Klairet Levy, R. Interview to José Baroja. http://letras.mysite.com/jbar050923.html
A collection of quotes on the topic of lyrics, likeness, song, music.
“As a poet I am an emotional accident; a lyrical tourist.”
Source: Klairet Levy, R. Interview to José Baroja. http://letras.mysite.com/jbar050923.html
From an article in Sovetskoye Iskusstvo, November 5, 1934; translation from Laurel Fay Shostakovich: A Life (2000) p. 77.
Date unknown, but appears on Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!.
Interviews (1989-1994), Video
“Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.”
LaGuardia, Gina (October 2004). "Masiela's Musings". College Bound Teen (USA): p. 2.
“Lyrically I'm untouchable, uncrushable. Getting mad blunted in the S-500.”
"Think BIG"
Song lyrics
Paik (1969) Versatile Color TV Synthesizer, Manifesto, cited in: Edith Decker-Phillips. Paik Video, Barrytown, Limited, 1998. p. 154
1960s
In an 1987 interview, "Aluminum Cucumbers" http://russiantumble.com/tag/viktortsoi/ (7 November 2012)
“We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music”
Source: The Angel's Game
[Sharma, S. D., Sarangi maestro calls present music soulless drudgery, The Tribune, 28 February 2008, http://www.webcitation.org/5pb5rvJkI]
On her creative inspiration http://tolucantimes.info/section/inside-this-issue/young-author-makes-her-mark-in-the-world-of-children’s-literature/
Letter to Virgil Finlay (25 September 1936), in Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, p. 310
Non-Fiction, Letters
Interview: Seven Magazine in the London Telegraph (6 January 2008)
“O lyric Love, half angel and half bird
And all a wonder and a wild desire”
Book I : The Ring and the Book <!-- line 1391 -->.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
Context: O lyric Love, half angel and half bird
And all a wonder and a wild desire, —
Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun,
Took sanctuary within the holier blue,
And sang a kindred soul out to his face, —
Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart—
When the first summons from the darkling earth
Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue,
And bared them of the glory — to drop down,
To toil for man, to suffer or to die, —
This is the same voice: can thy soul know change?
Hail then, and hearken from the realms of help!
Source: As quoted in "Kate Bush Speaks" by Owen Myers in Fader (23 November 2016)
Context: I'm really very happy if people can connect at all to anything I do. I don't really mind if people mishear lyrics or misunderstand what the story is. I think that's what you have to let go of when you send it out in the world. I'm sure with a lot of paintings, people don't understand what the painter originally meant, and I don't really think that matters. I just think if you feel something, that's really the ideal goal. If that happens, then I'm really happy.
On writing as a kind of spiritual act in “Both Freedom and Constraint: An Interview with Randa Abdel-Fattah” https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/both-freedom-and-constraint-an-interview-with in Words Without Borders (May 2015)
Source: The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
Travis Parker, Chapter 13, p. 166
Variant: conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)
Context: Finding a woman with a sense of humor had been the one piece of advice his father had given him when he'd first begun to get serious about dating, and he finally understood why his dad had considered it important. If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”
Source: Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
Source: This is Where I Leave You
“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”
"A Note on Poetry," preface to The Rage for the Lost Penny: Five Young American Poets (New Directions, 1940) [p. 49]
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary (1988)
On people thinking that they have a connection with a band or a person through their lyrics ** Interview with Request Magazine, October 1994 http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/articles/request_10-94.shtml,
Soundgarden Era
Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary
Part Two: 2. The Transcendence of Delirium
History of Madness (1961)
From P.G. Wodehouse's Do Butlers Burgle Banks? (1968).
Source: Facets of a Diamond: Reflections of a Healer (2002), p. 286
"The Pen and the Needlez"
Mixtapes, Fahrenheit 1/15 Part I: The Truth Is Among Us (2006)
In Jayachamaraja Wodeyar http://www.radioweb.in/programs/jayachamaraja-wodeyar
“Lyric poetry is a kind of poetry that's literally musical.”
The Details interview with Jay Ruzesky (Winter 2008)
On the effects of having a critical cardiac arrhythmia at age 17
Hiatt, Brian (2006-09-21), "My Big Mouth Strikes Again" http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/11515443/john_mayer_speaks_listen_to_his_hilarious_takes_on_paris_hilton_brad__angelina_living_in_ny. Rolling Stone. (1009): 66-70
quote from 'Guerra sola igiene del mundo', in Edizione Futuriste di Poesia', Milan 1915; as quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 21
1910's
As quoted in Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison (1997) by Brian Hinton, p. 106
as cited in History, Humanity and Evolution (1989), p. 383.
1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925)
Quote from 'Artists' Session at Studio 35', (1950); as cited in Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics (1990), ed. Clifford Ross, p. 225 <!-- Abrams Publishers New York -->
1950s
Ingeborg Glier, in Boris Ford (ed.) Medieval Literature: The European Inheritance (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983) p. 184.
Praise
“Logic, like lyrical poetry, is no employment for the middle-aged”
Source: Essays In Biography (1933), F. P. Ramsey, p. 296
Originally published in The Economic Journal, March 1930. and The New Statesman and Nation, October 3, 1931
https://web.archive.org/web/20170202035251/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170126/jsp/siliguri/story_132419.jsp
Interview with Details Magazine, December 1996 https://pitchfork.com/features/article/10081-chris-cornell-searching-for-solitude/,
Soundgarden Era
1910's, Multiplied Man and the Reign of the Machine' 1911
Source: Poggi, Christine, and Laura Wittman, eds. Futurism: An Anthology. Yale University Press, 2009. p. 89
Getting it right (Singing) http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/queen-of-the-charts/article390455.ece
"Roger Waters talks about What God Wants", a 1993 interview
Philosophy
Laura Riding and Robert Graves from A Pamphlet Against Anthologies (London: Doubleday, 1928)
Interview with Rolling Stone, 2014 https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/soundgardens-chris-cornell-on-superunknown-depression-w483113,
On depression and suicide
Interview with Request Magazine, October 1994 http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/articles/request_10-94.shtml,
On depression and suicide
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 52.
In response to Des Lynam's recent support and vote on UKIP, during the May 2013 local elections - Des Lynam reveals he voted UKIP, 10 May 2013. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10049891/Des-Lynam-reveals-he-voted-Ukip.html
2013
Quote from De Chirico's text 'Pro tempera oratio', c. 1920; from 'PRO TEMPERA ORATIO' http://www.fondazionedechirico.org/wp-content/uploads/475-480Metafisica5_6.pdf, p. 475
1920s and later
Form in Modern Poetry(1932)
[Serck, Linda, Legendary producer Martin Rushent, 2009, http://www.getreading.co.uk/entertainment/music/s/2061462_legendary_producer_martin_rushent, Get Reading, 6 June 2011]
“You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.”
"Bagpipes from Baghdad".
2000s, Relapse (2009)
“Per Te (lyrics by Josh Groban)”
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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)
Opening Lines from Epistle Dedicatory, to his sister, Sissie Le Gallienne English Poems Copland & Day 1895 kindle ebook.
On his songwriting technique. Interview with Colin Meloy, 2004-06 http://www.believermag.com/issues/200406/?read=interview_meloy,
Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (1861) Preface.
Source: Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 2: 1919, p. 82
Testimony http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/ochs.html at the Chicago Seven trial (11 December 1969)
Speech given at a Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Viewable here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlKR0i-51S4.
“The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.”
Collected Poems (London: Macmillan, 1954) p. xii.