Bits Quote by Stephen Malkmus

Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking.…

— Gregory Orr

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and…

— Benjamin Clementine

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're…

— Michael Gira

Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the…

— Bruce Hornsby

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

— Tom Araya

I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John…

— Carmen Ejogo

I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.

— Mike Patton

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never…

— Mary Oliver

If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of…

— Ian Anderson

I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song,…

— Washed Out

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

— Yasmine Hamdan