Actors Quote by Margaret Whiting

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

What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?

— Frank Sinatra

When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.

— Anne-Marie

Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape,…

— Adam Gopnik

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

— Mitch Leigh

When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that.

— Yasmine Hamdan

When you play a show and you see people singing your lyrics back to, you feel as if they do know you.

— Orianthi

In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

— Petula Clark

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little…

— Al Jarreau

I can't' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics.

— Molly Ringwald

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has…

— Jonathan Demme

I always take notes on my phone of lyric ideas.

— Benee