Food Quote by Jonathan Miles

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

— Tinie Tempah

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the…

— Stephen Sondheim

Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.

— Lee Ranaldo

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

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

— Taylor Swift

Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense.

— A. A. Gill

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes…

— PJ Harvey

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

— John McLaughlin

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way,…

— C. K. Williams

I'd always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium because they're subjugated under the music. If you were to regard…

— David Longstreth

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

— Eddie Izzard

Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot more as…

— M. Jayachandran