Best Quote by Arlo Parks

I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.

— Mike Patton

When I'm writing instrumental music, I try to find musical and non-musical inspirations.

— Bryce Dessner

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're…

— Michael Gira

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more…

— Leo Kottke

I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's been. The…

— Bruce Cockburn

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and…

— Steve Earle

There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.

— Rodney Crowell

The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just…

— Zachary Cole Smith

Music is an important part of my writing process.

— Peter James

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

— Oscar Isaac

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

— Eddie Van Halen

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

— Lenny Kravitz