Songs like 'One Love' by Bob Marley - they stand the test…

I never write a tune before the lyrics. I get the lyrics and then I write around them. Some people write music and the…

— James Dean Bradfield

If you can tune into an emotion or experience that is universal, and draw it, sing it or write it so that other people…

— Anonymous

I've never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open to everything.…

— Gregg Allman

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

— Jesse Harris

Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

— Leonard Bernstein

When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head…

— John Scofield

We make songs like a factory and put them out.

— Quavo

My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them.

— Dave Matthews

Some of my favorite songs are slow songs, like Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain.'

— Chad Gilbert

I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.

— LaToya Jackson

There's songs like 'Africa' that just have kind of become part of pop culture.

— Steve Porcaro

It seems like some of my favorite songs have almost like a nursery rhyme vibe to them.

— Ruston Kelly

Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.

— Brian Fallon

I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.

— Brad Paisley

When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.

— Cody Johnson