Guy Quote by Frank Fairfield

Loads of verses don't make it into the finished song.

— Johnny Flynn

And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people…

— Lee Ann Womack

We perform better when the lyrics mean something to us when we sing them.

— Perrie Edwards

When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't…

— Edward Hirsch

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

— Kurt Elling

To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be.

— Roger Miret

“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take notice of this except…

— Susanna Clarke

“We say verse is fun in the doing, True, that’s what we’re saying. And if our rhymes now are only limping, why Muse, the…

— Merlie M. Alunan

Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely…

— Dan Bejar

A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each…

— Robert Hunter

Because God loves us, he gives us lyrics to sing when our hearts can't form words.

— Jennifer Rothschild

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a…

— Rick Wright