Address Quote by Edgar Winter

I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song,…

— Washed Out

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

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 don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.

— Lewis Capaldi

Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're…

— Sarah McLachlan

There's still substance and depth, but we a have a different approach to what we think that lyrics to pop music can be.

— Russell Mael

I love melody, and that's what I love about pop music. The words can become what they are through a special melody. I learned…

— Anna Ternheim

You can only write so many pop songs before they all sound the same. I got to a point where something overtly melodic and…

— Dylan Baldi

Music doesn't have to have lyrics; it doesn't have to be a particular type of music - it has the ability to bring out…

— Tom Scholz

The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that…

— James Mercer

No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to…

— Lauren Mayberry

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

— Jann Klose