I am Quote by John Waite

I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction.

— Jay-Z

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

I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

— Verite

When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.

— Perfume Genius

If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you…

— Adam Jones

I didn't want to just be making music randomly and not have any direction.

— Mura Masa

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky…

— Cher Lloyd

My music is constantly changing because I am. I'm writing it and changing as I'm writing.

— Anne-Marie

I usually write to the beat. Really, the beat can make the song itself.

— Blueface

I have no choice in what direction my music goes, honestly, as all I get is what I'm given. I start writing the songs,…

— Amanda Shires

I've always written by myself. I've never been in a situation where the whole band sat in a room and wrote a song. I…

— Wayne Static

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

— Jerome Kern