I'd put him near the top of any list of the best lyricists making music today.

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Established in 1969, the Songwriters Hall of Fame celebrates composers and lyricists and has over 300 inductees.

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Most of these lyricists grew up in households where at least two and sometimes as many as four languages were spoken.

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"I remember reading once (RUSH drummer and lyricist) Neil Peart got voted one of the worst lyricists of all time, " Dunn said.

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As willing as he is to slice and dice himself, Sondheim really turns on the Vegomatic for some of his fellow lyricists.

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For musicians and lyricists, as well as playwrights and comedians, to be Jewish meant not only a value placed on scholarship and irony, but on employment.

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Johnny Burke, one of the greatest lyricists of the golden age of Hollywood musicals, tried to bring John Ford's "The Quiet Man" to Broadway in 1961 and failed dismally.

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