Band Quote by Bob Dylan

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

— Leonard Cohen

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

— Ishmael Reed

I'm influenced a lot by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, even Paul Weller - Billie Holiday as well: People who wrote and sang songs that…

— Hozier

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

— Jamila Woods

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a…

— Ric Ocasek

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies…

— Aberjhani

Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot…

— Bob Dylan

I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing what art…

— David Berman

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of…

— Lorde

Yeah. My singing and my songs were very influenced by all of that. People would come up to me and ask, Is that a…

— Regina Spektor

I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came…

— Dawn Richard

There's a jazz influence in my music in general.

— Alexandre Desplat