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I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist. -- Missy Elliot
As a lyricist, I'm really trying to raise my level of quality. -- Nikki Sixx
I've never considered myself a lyricist, but I have stuff to say. -- Brendon Urie
I don't want to work on a musical if I'm not the lyricist. -- David Lindsay-Abaire
It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band. -- Steven Tyler
As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts. -- Alicia Keys
A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist. -- Mike Gordon
I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions. -- Sarah McLachlan
I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that. -- Jonny Lang
I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson. -- Jennifer Lopez
I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices. -- Zooey Deschanel
As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist. -- Rick Wakeman
Nothing against Nicki Minaj - I think she's a dope lyricist, and her body is perfect, along with a dope personality. But I'm more into a woman who's not so much into the spotlight. -- Jeremih
With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director - sometimes the producer. I think that's a reason why musicals are the hardest form. -- David Henry Hwang
Lip Lock' is a play on words. It sounds flirty and fun. Also, my lips are one of my favorite features. Also, it's like, literally locking the game down with my words because I'm a lyricist. -- Eve
Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we're talking adult adults, celebrated adults - including James Thurber, Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Adlai E. Stevenson and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. -- Tom Shales
One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity. -- Hal David
I think I'm alright as a lyricist, you know? But then what will happen every couple of months or so is that I'll hear a song I've never heard before and feel I've gone right back to square one. -- Alex Turner
I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music. -- Erykah Badu
I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist. -- Mike Gordon
Sammy Davis, Andy Williams, Tony Bennett... their records sell in the millions; when I do it, it just trickles. But for the composer and lyricist, there's a tidy bit to be made that way, too, so I don't really mind. -- Anthony Newley
As a writer, as a lyricist, you're just trying to make sure that you're not repeating yourself. And that's a danger for a lot of people. So for me, I just try to keep taking corners and trying to find new paths. -- Corey Taylor
Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever. -- Ellie Goulding
In many ways, a song-writing partnership is like a marriage. Apart from just liking each other, a lyricist and a composer should be able to spend long periods of time together - around the clock if need be - without getting on each other's nerves. Their goals, outlooks, and basic philosophies should be similar. -- Richard Rodgers
As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door. -- Lesley Gore
I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John is the great melody and song writer but Bernie Taupin is the one who writes all the lyrics. I don't write lyrics, and I never wanted to be in the music business if I was just going to be a puppet in it. -- Carmen Ejogo
I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist. -- Missy Elliot
[Jeffrey Lewis is] The best lyricist working in the US today. -- Jarvis Cocker
The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist. -- David Lindsay-Abaire
I don't think I'm the best lyricist; it's hard for me to express feelings through words. -- Ty Segall
Courtney Love's name should be right next to Bob Dylan when they say best lyricist of all time. -- Linda Perry
I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much. -- Daniel Rossen
I love all kinds of music. Everybody knows that Nas is my favorite lyricist in the universe. I'd love to collaborate with him on something. -- Tony Sunshine
As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words. -- Zach Condon

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