Band Quote by John Cooper Clarke

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

— Brian Eno

There was no real poet in the band, but we tried.

— Steve Porcaro

I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing what art…

— David Berman

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

— Wislawa Szymborska

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a…

— Jewel

I have never been in a band. But in my grand day of cabaret at Les Deux Cafes, I was doing this poetry of…

— Michele Lamy

At the beginning, there was no chance I'd get published so I thought I'd give it a go live. I had to perform in…

— John Cooper Clarke

I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.

— Anne Sexton

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

— Cecil Taylor

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

— Ayi Kwei Armah

Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.

— James Fenton

People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't…

— Nick Tosches