Accepted Quote by John Drinkwater

Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.

— George Thorogood

In my opinion, lyrics are a paramount factor and will always be.

— Amaal Mallik

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

— Brian Eno

“The mystic poet William Blake once wrote, “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

— Anthony Robbins

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem.

— Vijay Seshadri

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

— Paul Valery

A song always haves to have the best beat no matter if the lyrics are good or bad.

— $Teady

“I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the…

— Shannon L. Alder

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

— Anne Hathaway

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out…

— Alison Krauss

Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because…

— Jon Foreman