Age Quote by Chuck D

For some music, lyrically, the best move is to keep it simple in what it is that you are saying, and just kind of…

— Black Thought

As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much…

— Ariel Pink

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

— Paul McCartney

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.

— Rick James

I feel as though I came to music with something to say. It wasn't like that when I was younger. I didn't have the…

— Mary Gauthier

I speak three languages - English is my third language - so I take my time with lyrics. It's almost like having a conversation…

— Snoh Aalegra

I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it.…

— Kristian Bush

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 want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out…

— Larry Carlton

I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just…

— Bucky Pope

Sometimes if the point of a piece of music is to open a conversation with other people, it's really hard to open that conversation…

— Hilary Hahn

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way…

— Donald Fagen