I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.

- Adam Schlesinger

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

- Barry Mann

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

- Cass McCombs

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

- Fernand Leger

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

- Gabrielle Aplin

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

- Gyorgy Ligeti

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

- John Lydon

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

- James Taylor

I try and journal every day, and that's where a lot of my lyric comes from.

- Jessie Baylin

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

- Lou Rawls

I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.

- Tom Jones