Bad Quote by David Longstreth

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

— Tinie Tempah

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.

— Stephen Sondheim

I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of music that…

— Kevin Young

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

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

— Bernie Taupin

Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense.

— A. A. Gill

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

Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot more as…

— M. Jayachandran

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…

— Michael Dirda

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

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and…

— Harry Connick, Jr