Crafts Quote by Ian Gillan

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and…

— Gary Ross

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the…

— Steve Earle

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and…

— Kelela

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an…

— Phil Harris

Most songwriting like poetry takes a careful selection of words. Sometimes you're just channeling something and a selection of words come out that you…

— Vance Joy

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

— Petra Haden

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

Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they…

— Paul Simon

If you're a poet and you're using rhyme, rhyme generates ideas. If you're a songwriter and you're using melody and words together, they bounce…

— Momus

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or…

— Pete Seeger

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

I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers.

— Greg Iles