Lyricist Quotes

Robert Burns

Ayumi Hamasaki

Ira Gershwin

Amanda Lear

Stephen Sondheim

Alan Jay Lerner

Hal David

Well, I flung the window open an' I shouted, "Yes, that's right Millandra – I'm goin' to Greece for the sex; sex for breakfast, sex for dinner, sex for tea, an' sex for supper." Well, she just ignored me but this little cab driver leans out an' pipes up, "That sounds like a marvellous diet, love." "It is," I shouted back, "have y' never heard of it? It's called the 'F' Plan."

I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.

Now laughing friends deride tears I cannot hide,
So I smile and say 'When a lovely flame dies,
Smoke gets in your eyes.'

Writing song lyrics was my deliverance from deprivation…I sometimes think that all the lyrics I wrote about the moon and stars expressed a longing for what I couldn't see back then.

Mitchell Parish

Her face, at first…just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.

Romance is a mush, stifling those who strive, I'll live a lush life in some small dive. And there I'll be, while I rot with the rest Of those whose lives are lonely, too.

Billy Strayhorn

To dream the impossible dream,
To reach the unreachable star!

'Cause it's witchcraft,
Wicked witchcraft.
And although I know it's strictly taboo,
When you arouse the need in me,
My heart says, "Yes, indeed" in me,
"Proceed with what you're leadin' me to!"

O Canada! Land of our forefathers
Thy brow is wreathed with a glorious garland of flowers.
As is thy arm ready to wield the sword,
So also is it ready to carry the cross.

Adolphe-Basile Routhier

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.

Stephen Sondheim

If you cannot be great, be willing to serve God in that which is small. If you cannot do great things for Him, cheerfully do little ones. If you cannot be an Aaron to serve at the altar, or a Moses to guide the tribes, consent to be "a little maid" to Xaaman the Syrian, for the honor of God's prophets, or a little child, for Christ's sake, to be set by Him in the midst of the people, as an illustration of the sweetness of humility.

Samuel Francis Smith

You think the only people who are people, Are the ones who look and think the way you do, But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, You'll learn the things you never knew you never knew... You can own the Earth and still, All you'll own is earth until You can paint with all the colors of the wind.

Stephen Schwartz

O! Lover, Enjoyment on the soft body of a lotus is always risky and inconsistent because its route is always surrounded by thorns.

Manmohan Acharya

I hate to spread rumours, but what else can one do with them?

If you can't say something nice…don't say nothing at all.

All the sad young men,
Drifting through the town,
Drinking up the night,
Trying not to drown.

Take him, I won't put a price on him
Take him, he's yours
Take him, pyjamas look nice on him
But how he snores!

I could while away the hours
Conversin' with the flowers,
Consultin' with the rain;
With the thoughts I'd be thinkin'
I could be another Lincoln
If I only had a brain...

…I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.

A weekend in the country—
Trees in the orchard call.
When you've examined one tree,
Then you've examined them all.

Keep the Home-fires burning,
While your hearts are yearning,
Though your lads are far away
They dream of Home.
There's a silver lining
Through the dark cloud shining;
Turn the dark cloud inside out,
Till the boys come Home.

Lena Guilbert Ford

Welcome to the Theatre,
To the magic, to the fun!
Where painted trees and flowers grow,
And laughter rings fortissimo,
And treachery's sweetly done.

I tic, tic, tic and my heart beats quick How can anything go wrong? When I'm listening to that Geiger counter song I tic, tic all day long

How the world can change, It can change like that, Due to one little word: "Married.