Charles Hart (lyricist)

Charles Hart (3 June 1961 –) is a British lyricist, songwriter and musician.

• my ambition was to be an English Sondheim. Being a lyricist is the ideal job for a university-educated dilettante, because it uses up all the rubbish in your education.
  • Interview with The Times, 8 October 1986

• It's a very similar process in many ways to doing translation, if you translate an opera or a work were the music is inflexible and the words have to go from language to another you have a similar challenge.
  • Interview with Charles Hart on ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ (October 2019)