Champion Quote by Stephen Malkmus

I don't care what 'Pitchfork' says. They write from a place that's a little too self-aware for me to really give a damn about…

— Jason Isbell

I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page. Some people write for the page, and that's a…

— Tom Waits

I feel like 'Pitchfork' has a style, and you always know what they're gonna say and what they're gonna pick apart.

— Phoebe Bridgers

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

Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real…

— Vito Acconci

They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this…

— Macaulay Culkin

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

People don't really care about lyrics anymore. It's kinda really sad, like they'll listen to something musically and has a really cool beat down…

— Roger Miret

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

— King Krule

I'm very careful about each lyric now. It can't just be a throwaway. And if it is, then we scrap it.

— Lola Young

Sometimes I have thought that a song should look disappointing on the page - a little thin, perhaps, a little repetitive, or a little…

— James Fenton

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to…

— Taylor Swift