Everything Quote by Julien Baker

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

— William Shenstone

I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

— Mike Gordon

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

— Amy Winehouse

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

— Countee Cullen

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

My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and there is…

— Anne Waldman

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

— Neil Farber

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

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with…

— Bob Dylan

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

— Mark Knopfler

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

— Gordon Waller

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and…

— Harry Connick, Jr