Like Quote by David Berman

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on…

— Van Morrison

It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It…

— Manika

Basically what I'm trying to say is that when you get down to the nitty gritty of song writing, it is very logical to…

— Vienna Teng

When I write a song, that process is sort of entwined with a lyric or a chord progression that suits the vibe, and that'll…

— Michelle Zauner

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful…

— Paul McCartney

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

— Oscar Isaac

Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.

— Tom Waits

When you listen to the music, you see little movies in your head, and that's the beauty of it, I think. People can make…

— Sune Rose Wagner

When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction.…

— Juliana Hatfield

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice…

— Ben Harper

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

— Vance Joy

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that…

— Gerard Way