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Lyrics Quotes by Stephen Sondheim
- Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
- I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you…
- One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage…
- Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
- One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware…
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- I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. — Sebastian Bach
- I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco. — Jello Biafra
- Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music… — Bjork
- I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really. — Nick Cave
- Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse. — Tracy Chapman
- I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this… — Leonard Cohen
- Where words fail, music speaks. — Hans Christian Andersen
- In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the… — Ian Anderson
- And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy. — Julie Andrews
- "The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know" — Michel Legrand
- ...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a… — Maya Angelou