Becoming Quote by John Prine

I say funny stuff in my lyrics to make people laugh, but it's all in the seriousness of the music. I'm just being witty.

— Rich Brian

I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.

— Nick Cannon

I say funny stuff in my songs sometimes, but it's still all in the seriousness of the music and the craft.

— Rich Brian

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

— Paul McCartney

It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and…

— Paul Banks

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which…

— N. Scott Momaday

Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a…

— Paul Simon

There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.

— Alex Turner

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

— Bo Burnham

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level…

— Johan Huizinga

I've never really taken myself too serious. That's everybody else, listening to the music or whatever. I've always said what I've felt, said what…

— Ice Cube

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

— Jim Morrison