Cutting Quote by Mike Gordon

You have to write some poetry, first of all, to decide if you can become a lyricist. I was born in a family of…

— Javed Akhtar

I feel like a lyricist is somebody that writes their own lyrics. Now songwriters and lyricists are two totally different things. You can't really…

— Dave East

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches,…

— Ian Anderson

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

— Alex Turner

I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it.

— Ester Dean

I've never considered myself a lyricist, but I have stuff to say.

— Brendon Urie

I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.

— David Lindsay-Abaire

My favorite way to get into the songwriting process is to get into the studio, and then usually, they play a loop of four…

— Tate McRae

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take…

— Tom Waits

Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the…

— Lyle Lovett

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have…

— Win Butler

There is no dearth of talented lyricists and I know many of them don't get an opportunity. After I received success, many of them…

— Ankit Tiwari