Always Quote by John Scofield

When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction.…

— Juliana Hatfield

Sometimes something opens up in your brain as I'm writing, thinking about the song, and it's like a whirlwind. It all comes together and…

— Amanda Shires

The thing is, the way we write is all jams and bits and pieces that get pieced together and sometimes things are written with…

— Danny Carey

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that…

— Gerard Way

It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It…

— Manika

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

— Vance Joy

We listen to songs to figure them out, to unravel the mystery of the words and the tune

— David Levithan

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody…

— Chester Bennington

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

— Dexter Gordon

Most of the time, I write songs with the arrangements all at once, in my head. There's the producer side of me that's always…

— Joe Satriani

It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new…

— Tyler Hilton

I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the words all…

— Ringo Starr