Quotes About Lyricists

#1. Composers and lyricists are not responsible for storyline and casting. One can imagine actors shouldering this responsibility, since they charge for half the film. But producers never ask actors to share the losses. Instead, they train their guns on composers and lyricists.

Shaan

#2. Lyricists play with words.

Paul McCartney

#3. I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.

French Montana

#4. Many lyricists rhyme as they pronounce, and their pronunciation is simply horrible. They can make "home" rhyme with "alone," and "saw" with "more," and go right off and look their innocent children in the eye without a touch of shame.

P.G. Wodehouse

#5. Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.

Shaan

#6. When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

Ben Harper

#7. If one wants to go on living, one must evolve. Before, when we composed, we would start by a series of music themes. Once created, we would hire writers and lyricists to make up the text and the story line. I was the first to do this backwards with 'Man of La Mancha.'

Mitch Leigh

#8. Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.

Paul Simon

#9. Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.

Andrew VanWyngarden

#10. I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.

Harold Prince

#11. I rate Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

David Bowie

#12. Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that
men have died to win them.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#13. Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat. The

Suzanne Collins

#14. I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.

Clint Eastwood

#15. Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see.

Jack Ramsay

#16. Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.

Jean De La Bruyere

#17. The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.

Lindsey Graham

#18. [Jeffrey Lewis is] The best lyricist working in the US today.

Jarvis Cocker

#19. It's 1am, I have fiction to write!

C.S. Woolley

#20. We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

Claude Bernard

#21. I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much.

Daniel Rossen

#22. From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola

Umberto Eco

#23. The Timeline of a Life being Long or Short, is Computed on the Benchmark of How You Live It ...

Saurabh Dudeja

#24. Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

Stephen Sondheim

#25. I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.

John Lee Hancock