Done Quote by Katie Stelmanis

When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a…

— Sampha

When I'm recording, I usually just mumble and hum a melody and then fill the words in as I go.

— Tierra Whack

It's no longer necessary to slave over the vocals. I don't sing the lyrics until I write them, and singing is the very last…

— Todd Rundgren

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and…

— Kelela

I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just…

— Bucky Pope

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

I record into my phone as soon as I hear a track. Melody comes first for me, and then my gibberish usually forms into…

— Keiynan Lonsdale

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

— Oscar Isaac

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

That's pretty much how every song of mine works - I start with gibberish and melody and phrasing. I speak it naturally first. And…

— Kelela

I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is…

— Angel Olsen

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice…

— Ben Harper