Greg Iles Quotes

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.

I'd always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium because they're subjugated under the music. If you were to regard them as poetry, it would be bad, embarrassing, confessional poetry - a lot of the lyrics I love.

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

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

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

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

I've always said that music is like literature.

Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don't have that. Like 'She Blinded Me With Science.' It's a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.