Music Quote by Stephen Sondheim

There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves…

— Van Morrison

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…

— Gilbert Highet

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

— Tinie Tempah

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way,…

— C. K. Williams

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

— Taylor Swift

Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people.…

— Patti Smith

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

Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass…

— Nikki Giovanni

When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't…

— Edward Hirsch

Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.

— Lee Ranaldo

Most of the time, comparing printed song lyrics with poems is like comparing recipes with food: that's to say, patently unfair.

— Jonathan Miles

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

— Amiri Baraka