Come up Quote by Jerry Garcia

Alan Menken is so gifted in terms of coming up with these great melodies. What I learned from working with him was how to…

— Stephen Schwartz

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I…

— Carly Simon

I think you can do a lot with lyrics and melody.

— Alison Sudol

Some people are great lyricists, but they're terrible at melody. But I could do melodies till the cows come home.

— Guy Sebastian

I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.

— Mike Patton

I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs…

— Mac DeMarco

My forte is playing along and singing along to music I love. I mean, who knows, maybe I could develop that knack or develop…

— Petra Haden

I don't want to write melodies anymore. I can only write really simple, dumb caveman melodies.

— Derek E. Miller

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not…

— Glenn Danzig

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 love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and how they…

— Charles Kelley

I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John…

— Carmen Ejogo