Believe Quote by Jim Carroll

If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of…

— Ian Anderson

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

— William Shenstone

“Some music has words, and rock had words that at times aspired to poetry, but the words were always sounds first, spoken to the…

— Rebecca Solnit

I don't really listen to rock music anymore. But were I to write a song that sounded like it could be a rock song,…

— Dan Bejar

“As poets value the sounds of words above their meanings, and images above arguments, I am trying to get thinking people to be aware…

— Alan W. Watts

On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through everything and…

— Casey Spooner

With rock, you can write about anything. There are rock songs I still don't know what they're singing about, but you want to get…

— Darius Rucker

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

— Ann Reed

I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

— Adrienne Rich

Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking.…

— Gregory Orr

One listens to a piece of great music, say, and feels deeply moved by it, and wants to put this feeling into words, but…

— John Ashbery