Music Poetry Quotes

Lyrics became important for a while in the late Seventies. Patti Smith was a poet and a rock star, as much one as the other, the distinctions were a bit blurred and then you get swept up in it. Punk poet, it's a good enough term.

Where I come from, we sing poetry.

He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

A song is a poem set to music.

I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly had a social agenda, but he was such a good poet that most of his attempts were head and shoulders above things that I and others were trying to do. ... If I had an address, I'd send him a birthday card saying, 'keep on going.'

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

My mum is a singer and harpist, and my dad writes fantastic poetry, so we've grown up around a lot of words and music.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician. All of his poems are all like songs, and that's how I always try to start my thoughts.

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.

I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave this Nobel Prize to [Bob] Dylan because blurring the lines of song lyrics and also hip-hop for me is like some of the greatest uses - most innovative uses of language in my lifetime.

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

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.