Bits Quote by Bruce Cockburn

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

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

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

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 always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

— Sigrid

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with…

— Midge Ure

Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle around on…

— Iron & Wine

Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write…

— Leon Bridges

It's rare that I'll write lyrics first. If I come up with some good lyrics, I'll write them down and try to use them…

— Rob Crow

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches,…

— Ian Anderson

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

— Dan Bejar

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the…

— John Legend