Hardest Quote by Stephen Sondheim

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

— King Tuff

It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to…

— Wes Borland

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

— Stephen Sondheim

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and…

— Kelela

I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.

— Yukimi Nagano

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

— King Krule

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

— Aesop Rock

Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and…

— Craig Finn

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.

— Win Butler

After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.

— Joshua Homme

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the…

— Leonard Cohen

I really don't like writing lyrics. It's totally a mandatory thing. It's like homework.

— Max Cavalera