Composition Quote by Russell Smith

A song is a poem set to music.

— Tom T. Hall

To me, a song is a song when you can sit in a room and just sing it from end to end.

— Neneh Cherry

Lyrics is the face of any song. The combination of composition, lyrics and singing is what makes a song a song.

— Amit Trivedi

A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.

— Chuck Berry

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is…

— Jesse Harris

I think a "song" is, like, just play it on the guitar and sing it. You look out and see thousands of covers of…

— Andrew Wyatt

To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.

— Andrea Bocelli

To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other…

— Ryan Adams

It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It…

— Manika

It's much easier to write a song for a musical than just writing a song because, writing for a musical, you know what the…

— Leslie Bricusse

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time…

— Stephen Sondheim

When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in…

— PJ Harvey