Motorhead Lyric Quotes

Everything changes, it all stays the same,
Everyone guilty, no one to blame,
Every way out, brings you back to the start,
Everyone dies to break somebody's heart ... ~ Motorhead

Dear Diary,
Today I met a boy
He stole my heart...
And won't give it back ~ Lyric

My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric. ~ Ernesto Cardenal

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

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

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality. ~ Edward Hirsch

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say. ~ Lorde

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell. ~ Herb Alpert

I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist. ~ David Levithan

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

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose. ~ Boris Pasternak

No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we (anyone) get through adolescence without some form of song? Song is only a version of lyric poetry that is carried more by melody than by internal coherence and unity. but lyric and song - they are the same. ~ Gregory Orr

I don't have some songwriting formula that I kinda go by. Usually it just comes by way of inspiration. Sometimes I'm inspired by a melody first and sometimes I'm inspired by a lyric. Typically, I'm inspired by an idea for a lyric and then after we get the lyric going then we write a melody to it. ~ Natalie Grant

Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem. ~ Vijay Seshadri

Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead? ~ Mos Def

For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it ... Without a lyric that I'm happy with, it could be the greatest song ever melodically or arrangement-wise, but it doesn't have any resonance. ~ Ben Gibbard

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it. ~ Alison Krauss

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first. ~ Carole King

When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.' ~ Taylor Swift

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

Motörhead is nothing if not democratic, but I don't think it's fair to be waving your dick around when people are minding their own business and might not want to see it. ~ Lemmy Kilmister

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

Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band for three years affected you? The answer to that is you bet. ~ Cornelius Eady

In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response. ~ Jennifer Warnes

Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric. ~ Jon Foreman

As a writer, I find it very satisfying when a lyric suddenly ties together more neatly than you expected it to. But for the listener, hearing a good lyric is not generally as exciting as hearing a great beat or a great riff or a great melody or even a distinctive singing voice for the first time. ~ Adam Schlesinger

Too many poets are insufficiently interested in story. Their poems could be improved if they gave in more to the strictures of fiction: the establishment of a clear dramatic situation, and a greater awareness that first-person narrators are also characters and must be treated as such by their authors. The true lyric poet, of course, is exempt from this. But many poets wrongly think they are lyric poets. ~ Stephen Dunn

Life is a song. Your heart is the beat, your word is the lyric, your move is the dance. And love, love is the music.

It has always been a dream of mine to sing my love away, let the music take her love to mine, the lyric touches her heart and soul. And may her head fallen over heel and so am I. ~ Gkynwin

When I'm writing a lyric, I totally forget about the music. I'm just looking at the lyric and thinking about it almost as a separate entity. And then I'll go to my keyboard with all the lyrics printed out and try to think of how to make this a complete musical thing. I've got a very basic keyboard with some presets. ~ Scott Walker

From "Modern Man" in Every Lyric Tells A Story
His life is run by telephones and clocks
He changes his women, like he changes his socks
He plays to win and sometimes he plays rough
Knows a lot about sex but not much about love ~ Mark Wilkins

Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened. ~ Imogen Heap

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest. ~ Glenn Danzig

Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short. ~ Irving Howe

Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking. In fact they are the urgent element of poetry in our time, they carry the most emotion for the most people in our culture. everyone LOVES poetry, because we all love (one form or another) of rock and roll (be it folk to emo to rap). It's all rock and roll and all lyric poetry. ~ Gregory Orr

The artist tries to show reason in experience and appearance – and lyric is the daily appearance, the commonplace dress, of reason. It shows us the rational. It makes the epic pattern human. It's the footprint on the pathway. In the epic-lyric the individual and particular are no longer isolated but are placed in a historical, social, human pattern. That's why there's a political way of cutting bread or wearing shoes. ~ Edward Bond

The fundamental message of the Wu Tang music is as vast as the ocean in all reality, but it's still a straight path. You can take one lyric and by researching what that lyric is giving out to you, it should give you more than a day's worth of school, maybe three days' worth of school. ~ RZA

Some songs started from a bass line, some started from having the full lyric and Jim, my drummer, who's also the first guy I've been in the studio with him since 16, sometimes he'd have an idea and I'd put a lyric to it and then the track evolves, there's no set way to write a song. ~ Paolo Nutini

The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can hook a lyric up and a feeling up to something and make the lyric jump into this machine that crushes. That has always been really attractive to me, that kind of power. ~ Henry Rollins

I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable about the fact that we're going to die and that we can't stand it and I think you find that out in childhood and you don't really - at least I found it out in childhood and I found it hard to get over. ~ Edward Hirsch

Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand. ~ Metallica

From "I Exist" in Every Lyric Tells A Story.
His mother thought he was a loser
His father thought he was a bum
Plenty of times he felt like running
But he really had nowhere to run
He fought it with everything he had
With his brains and with his fists
And whenever anyone told him he was nobody
He'd tell himself "I exist ~ Mark Wilkins

I'm no good at goodbyes

-50 Ways To Say Goodbye ~ Train

Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing. ~ James Fenton

You make my heart shake bend and break ~ Troye Sivan

Find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don't cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox. ~ Mindy Kaling

We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size. ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Or you can just start speaking up...

-Brave ~ Sara Bareilles

All you ever did was...WRECK ME...

-Wrecking Ball ~ Miley Cyrus

Trouble, Troublemaker yeah that's your middle name

Ooh ~ Olly Murs

So for now wave good-bye leave your hands held high ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Time flies when you're falling down ... (not from a book, it's a lyric) ~ Courtney Love

Even in the midst of my darkness, through a storm of pain, Lyric brings me calm. ~ Jessica Sorensen

Tricey eventually forgave me for falling in love with Taij, but Lyric never did. Besides, ~ Jessica N. Watkins

I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative. so, I think I'll just write sequences for the foreseeable (the Beloved sequence doesn't have a 'plot' so I can just keep adding poems to it, it's like a giant bag I can just put beloved lyrics into - I think there are about 300 of them i've published by now). ~ Gregory Orr

Not sure if you know this. But when we first met, I got so nervous I couldn't speak ~ Shane Filan

I may appear to be free but I'm just a prisoner of your love. ~ Macy Gray

O lyric love! half angel half bird ~ Robert Browning

Usually it's lyric first, but sometimes it's melody. And I carry a hand-held recorder everywhere I go so I can just hum or whistle a melody if one hits me. Sometimes it's both simultaneously - lyric and melody at the same time - those are a little confusing to me, but sometimes it comes in that form. I just feel like I have my own little radio station and sometimes the static clears and something beams in from out there. ~ Hal Ketchum

She's no angel.
He's no saint. ~ Elvis Costello

Ultimately the air
Is bare sunlight where must be found
The lyric valuable. ~ George Oppen

It's like you know a lyric for a song by heart and suddenly you forget the words. ~ Cecelia Ahern

Cicero said that even if his lifetime were to be doubled he would still not have time to waste on reading the lyric poets. ~ Edward Hirsch

love is but an echo in her head ~ David Cantor

And we dance all night to The Best Song ever!
-One Direction ~ One Direction

You'll be mine and I'll be yours. ~ Taylor Swift

I know that that doesn't make even a little bit of sense. That was the point, that beautiful incongruence. ~ Hank Green

snatch of an old Bob Dylan lyric occurred to him, something about the price you had to pay to keep from going through everything twice. ~ Stephen King

Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its own language-group. ~ George Orwell

I listen to tons of hard rock and metal, like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, etc., but I also listen to Beethoven and Mozart, to Discharge and the Bad Brains, and to Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington. So I think there's merit to both the melodic punk and to the hardcore stuff too. ~ Dave Smalley

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear. ~ Lord Byron

It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person. ~ Theophilus London

I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy! ~ James Brown

But Lyric isn't sexy. She's fun, ridiculously happy, effortlessly beautiful, life-saving, and mind-blowing amazing. Sexy doesn't even begin to sum her up. ~ Jessica Sorensen

No use wishing now for any other sin. ~ Elvis Costello

After all, what is lyric but the seamless fusion of formal control and passionate conviction, in the service of the expression of personal experience? ~ Annie Finch

I could never understand why people cower from the word storm. Sounds like a good time, to me! ~ Nicole DSettemi

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it. ~ King Krule

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself. ~ Alfred De Musset

If I was an owl, I would peck your eyes out. Wow this lyric is ****ing brilliant. ~ Thom Yorke

I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times. ~ Robert Webb

He is a lyric poet ... aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed. ~ Samuel Barber

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun. ~ Erich Bergen

Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing. ~ Adam Schlesinger

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home.' ~ James Blunt

But I always loved songs with great lyrics. ~ Johnny Rivers

Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric. ~ Victor Hugo

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

I'm not a wannabe. I'm who I wannabe. ~ Hawk Nelson

UNUSED LYRIC I've never been to Eden But it's nice I hear tell When I die I'll go to heaven 'Cause I've done my time in hell ~ Nikki Sixx

def leppard lyric from Rock of Ages: It's better to burn out than fade away. This is not a Curt Cobain quote. He was quoting them !!!!! ~ Victoria Danann

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

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? ~ Bob Dylan

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic. ~ David Bowie

Back from 'Roam if she wants to'!" yelled Renee. She had that condition unique to choreographers and directors, where they can listen to the same line or lyric thousands of times without ever getting it right. ~ Mara Wilson

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric. ~ Adam Jones

Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other. ~ Michael Dirda

My feet took an involuntary step backward as I suddenly envisioned a world where I wasn't a hot tempered smartass. It was a pretty world. ~ Jennifer R. McDonald

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object. ~ Conor Oberst