Chorus Quote by Nicole Krauss

“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead…

— Nicole Krauss

“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept away into the gutter like…

— Nicola Kraus

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

On the whole, it bums me out that lyrics seem to be written as afterthoughts nowadays. Not sure why this is, but hopefully things…

— Wooden Wand

The words of the songs speak for themselves.

— Cat Stevens

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.

— Billie Eilish

“So here, twisted in steel, and spoiled with red your sunlight hide, smelling of death and fear, they crushed out your throat the terrible…

— Judith Wright

The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows…

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with reverent attention.

— Anna Akhmatova

“Their howls rose to the sky and twisted together until they were on, and the other beasts joined in too, all of their voices…

— Dave Eggers

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The…

— Joan Baez

“Money Chiefs, loud and long notes are not songs. Silent snow wets Earth, seeds grow, flowers' honey purses seek neither wealth nor power, and…

— Frederic M. Perrin