Able Quote by Dexter Gordon

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

— Dexter Gordon

With lyrics, I go into a place where I try to hear what the song is about. I have to learn. The music tells…

— Lacey Sturm

I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it.

— Taylor Momsen

If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with…

— Roddy Woomble

You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has…

— Julie Andrews

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away…

— Hal David

It is very difficult to explain poetry. You have to understand the poetry and figure out your own take and your relatability.

— Shoojit Sircar

The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking, half dream.…

— Jane Hirshfield

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as…

— James Laughlin

Words are what make the song. I get a personal vision about what the lyrics are about.

— Julie Andrews

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

— David Gilmour