Composing Quote by Al Michaels

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and…

— Kelela

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It…

— Alison Krauss

When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has…

— Craig David

Lyrics is the face of any song. The combination of composition, lyrics and singing is what makes a song a song.

— Amit Trivedi

In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel,…

— Jennifer Warnes

My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

— Elton John

You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has…

— Julie Andrews

I think [game music] is something that should last with the player. It's interesting because it can't just be some random music, but something…

— Yasunori Mitsuda

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

— Kurt Elling

When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with…

— David Longstreth

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm…

— Ken Hensley