Lyricist Quotes

Robert Burns

Ayumi Hamasaki

Ira Gershwin

Amanda Lear

Stephen Sondheim

Alan Jay Lerner

Hal David

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.

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

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

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

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

No, no regrets,
No, we will have no regrets,
As you leave, I can say—
Love was king, tho' for only a day.

Michel Vaucaire

Sometimes I'm happy
sometimes I'm blue
my disposition
depends on you.

We're in the money,
We're in the money,
We've got a lot of what it takes to get along!

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

Does your chewing-gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?

…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.

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

At the age of ninety-three, when asked at what age the sex drive goes:

You'll have to ask somebody older than me.

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

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

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

That Shakespearian rag,—
Most intelligent, very elegant.

I am what I am
I am my own special creation
So come take a look
Give me the hook or the ovation
It's my world that I want to have a little pride in
My world and it's not a place I have to hide in
Life's not worth a damn till you can say
Hey world I am what I am.

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

He's making a list And checking it twice,
Gonna find out Who's naughty and nice,
Santa Claus is comin' to town.

Haven Gillespie

Darling, I am growing old,
Silver threads among the gold Shine upon my brow today;
Life is fading fast away.

Eben E. Rexford

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

Oh, I was only twenty four hours from Tulsa,
Ah, only one day away from your arms;
I hate to do this to you but I love somebody new, what can I do?
And I can never, never, never … go home again.

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 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...