Abandon Quote by John Lydon

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

— Jann Klose

Basically what I'm trying to say is that when you get down to the nitty gritty of song writing, it is very logical to…

— Vienna Teng

Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and…

— Chris de Burgh

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly…

— Tori Amos

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

— Richard Wagner

It is easy to write unthinking music.

— George Crumb

I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a…

— David Byrne

I have a hard time making a linear-idea song, because that's not the way my thoughts work.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

— St. Lucia

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

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived…

— Halsey

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an…

— Keren Ann