Always Quote by Elton John

I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.

— Matt Berninger

I try to keep the theatrics to a minimum and let the music do the talking.

— Billy Squier

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

— Phil Collins

I usually like to try to find a title as quickly as I can and work from the title, and then it can go…

— Stephen Schwartz

Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.

— John Legend

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

A lot of the time I tend to overlook the music because I'm listening to how it's produced.

— Adam Beyer

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

— Roy Wood

Whenever I'm really excited about a song, I want to learn it, and it becomes the first thing I play every time I pick…

— Frankie Cosmos

Everybody likes to listen to a song because it's fun, and nobody wants to sit around and listen to 'I-really-have-to-analyze-these-lyrics' songs all the time.

— Chris Stapleton

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 tell people to listen really closely to the song when they're working out their guitar parts.

— Mike Campbell