Music Quote by Stephen Sondheim

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

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

— Laura Marling

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

To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a…

— Sam Shepard

Anything can be a musical if it makes sense for it to be a musical.

— Michael Patrick Walker

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

— Jann Klose

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

— John Phillips

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

— Jo Stafford

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

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

— Barry White

For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to music; I'm…

— Cornelius Eady

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

— Andrea Bocelli