Firsts Quote by Stephen Sondheim

With Bernstein, because we wound up always working music first, it was where I really feel I learned how to write lyrics as a…

— Stephen Schwartz

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

— Jello Biafra

When I was 12 years old and first decided I wanted to be a songwriter, the people that I always looked up to were…

— Eric Carmen

I got into songwriting because I'm not very good at communicating sometimes, just my true words, so music was always my way of expressing…

— LIZ

I listen to lots of artists. But I remember discovering John Mayer, whose music made me want to write my own. And so I…

— Astrid S

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not

— Tommy Shaw

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the…

— Yungblud

When I discovered Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I could explore the records that inspired me on a different level and that led me…

— Taylor Goldsmith

I started writing songs later in life because I just couldn't commit to it before.

— Perfume Genius

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

— Stephen Sondheim

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing…

— Jason Robert Brown

I've always had a song; but the moment that I made the decision to allow God to be the song writer my life has…

— Sashauni Aaeliyae