“Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” PeopleWritingCharacterStoriesVisionSawsPoetAngelAssumingSongwritersAutobiographyMarble Book:Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile Source: Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile
“Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.” WayLittlesDifferentSpeakOne ThingPoetSpeechDifferent WaysSongwritersLittle Time Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.” WritingUseArtistMemoriesPoetBrilliantProseSongwritersUsing Me Author:Paul McCartney
“There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.” PeopleAgeUsedCuttingPoetKingsTongueJailSongwritersPayroll Author:Pete Seeger
“Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.” SaidHappensPoetBrokenInvisibleSongwriters Author:Anne Lamott
“My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.” PeopleCarePoetBabyMedicineFearlessGrandmotherChemistryMexicoSongwritersMy GrandmotherEnergeticDelivering1930sArranged Marriage Author:Salma Hayek
“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 intending it to not be recited. I'm a singer-songwriter, and I'm a poet, and there really isn't a contradiction, at least for me.” WritingSongPoetSingersContradictionSongwritersSinger SongwritersWriting Words Author:Cornelius Eady
“We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni Mitchell] will write exactly what she lives. If she puts some money in the soda machine, she'll write about putting money in the soda machine. "Dry Cleaner from Des Moines," on the Shadows & Light album, was about sitting next to a dry cleaner from Des Moines, playing a slot machine.” IfsWritingLightPoetryNextStuffTalkingPoetSittingShadowMachinesAlbumsDrySongwritersCleanersSodaSlot MachinesLyricistsDes MoinesDry Cleaners Author:Don Alias
“One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayArtistActorsWaitingWonderfulPoetMy FavoriteSingersTomsSongwritersTerrificPersonaSinger SongwritersGreat PoetFavorite Artist Author:Jeff Bridges
“For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.” ArtArtistPoetMadnessMediumsPainterSongwritersArt And Artists Author:Jeff Feuerzeig
“There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s, but then started writing songs. Bob Dylan's a poet in the sense of bard, aoidos or vates.” WritingSongPoetSingersBobSongwritersDylanSinger SongwritersWriting SongsBards Author:Richard F. Thomas
“I try to write lyrics that will be able to function on their own if they get separated from the music. But I wouldn't want to take anything away from poets, who work without the frames songwriters get from melody, and I think lyrics should be considered as their own thing.” IfsThinkingWantShouldWritingTryingAblePoetFunctionMelodySongwriters Author:John K. Samson