Easy Quote by Ian Gillan

The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first and then…

— Mikal Cronin

I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even…

— Pat Metheny

People don't know major and minor chords; they know what they like. I feel the same way.

— Eddie Rabbitt

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't…

— Haruki Murakami

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.

— Mick Barr

Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.

— David Bezmozgis

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're…

— Andrew Dost

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

— Armando Iannucci

It's been neat to find out different writing strategies. I've been in the room with so many different writers. Sometimes, you write with tracks,…

— Kane Brown

It's not like I'm writing full songs or full parts and setting it aside for Slash because, generally, I like him to make the…

— Myles Kennedy

I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.

— Lalo Schifrin

I always write tons of different styles.

— Jeremy Camp