Heard Quote by Justin Townes Earle

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

— A. A. Gill

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

— Tinie Tempah

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an…

— Phil Harris

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

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

— Hunter Parrish

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

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

— John McLaughlin

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very…

— Brian Eno

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

— William Shenstone

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

— Jamila Woods

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