Band Quote by J. Robbins

That's common in our industry, where some songs make the cut, some don't. It's bad when it doesn't make the cut and you don't…

— Rodney Jerkins

When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.

— Ian MacKaye

Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.

— Carlos Alomar

On the whole, it bums me out that lyrics seem to be written as afterthoughts nowadays. Not sure why this is, but hopefully things…

— Wooden Wand

Usually when we go in to cut demos, one of us will lay down some mumbling sort of stuff for the vocal melodies because…

— Synyster Gates

There's lots of bands where somebody will write lyrics and somebody else will sing them. It works for a lot of people, but that…

— Frank Iero

It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside…

— James Iha

Dudes I work with have to be like-minded to where I just hand them a beat that has a chorus and they can do…

— Madlib

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

— King Tuff

Some bands write and it is just the singer and the guitarist that do it all and then the rest of the band follows…

— Marco Mendoza

Every part of every song can have a totally different musical sound, because otherwise if I wanted to go from a verse of one…

— Annie E. Clark

When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade…

— Walter Becker