Areas Quote by David Grubbs

I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

— Mike Gordon

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

— David Bowie

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're…

— Michael Gira

Composing is what drives me; it's not the pursuit of fame. My songs are like pages in a diary.

— Mick Hucknall

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

— Janine Turner

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

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

— Tom Araya

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who…

— Frank Fairfield

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

— Bob Dylan

The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.

— Lights