I know already the music I will write. But the words? I…

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

— Roy Ayers

Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.

— Nizar Qabbani

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

— Patricia A. McKillip

The first musical stuff I worked on was after the tour for 'Swing Lo Magellan' had ended and I didn't really know what else…

— David Longstreth

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the…

— Moby

We all decided that from the start, me and Richey can't write music but we can write lyrics and look pretty tarty.

— Nicky Wire

Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another person. We…

— Joan Bauer

I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's written incorrectly,…

— Bill Callahan

No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words…

— Isabel Allende

“I wanted to write some words you'd remember. Words so alert they'd leap from the paper, crawl up your shoulder, lie by your ears,…

— C.L. Foster

“If I could write words Like leaves on an autumn forest floor, What a bonfire my letters would make. If I could speak words…

— Spike Milligan

Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.

— Brian Harris

“Critics write words but they don't write the future.”

— Jon Gordon

The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.

— Amitava Kumar

I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda