Attention Quote by Kurt Elling

People often look up to actors. It is not right on their part to do songs whose lyrics are not good. Actors have social…

— Kumar Sanu

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where…

— Stephen Sondheim

When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It's a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music becomes a…

— Hiromi Uehara

“Music blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They become pompous and they become self-conscious ... I firmly believe…

— Stephen Sondheim

Lyrics are no more important than the music. There's no point in forcing them on people.

— Elizabeth Fraser

We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must…

— Jessye Norman

When an actor sings a song, he will be able to bring forth the emotion in it much better than a playback singer.

— Gopi Sundar

Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but…

— Debbie Harry

Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely…

— Dan Bejar

Music doesn't have to have lyrics; it doesn't have to be a particular type of music - it has the ability to bring out…

— Tom Scholz

I would agree with that. But when I write lyrics, personally I don't care if the person who is listening to it understands what…

— David W. Marsden

People who don't like musicals like, 'why are they singing? Why aren't they just talking? If you make the lyric feel really conversational, it's…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda