Allan Holdsworth Quotes

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.

I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.

Life is a song to me.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense.

I like something you can hum along to.

I love clever lyrics.

We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that.

A song is a burden that you carry happily.

I love good beats and good lyrics. I'm pretty open.

Lyricists play with words.

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

I like songs that are simple.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

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

A really good poem is full of music.

Poetry is meant to be heard.

Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.

I like mantras and repeating things, like in pop music, where you repeat a line over and over again. It's just so beautiful.

The main song I listened to with the 'Firebird' books was 'Breath of Life' by Florence + the Machine.