I think Quote by Big Daddy Kane

I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting.

— Nina Nesbitt

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 know why, but there's a certain element of panic in writing lyrics that I'm not sure I enjoy. I don't write lyrics…

— Mike Patton

Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they…

— Valerie June

Sometimes I write from the end of the verse to the beginning of the verse.

— Rakim

I don't really write music in the traditional sense of chorus, verse. It's more experimental sounding. The process comes from an experimentation with noise.

— Bonobo

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of…

— John Legend

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

— King Tuff

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

— Sigrid

I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally, but some…

— Tarja Turunen

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