Alphabetical order Quote by Kiersten White

I've never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open to everything.…

— Gregg Allman

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

— Liz Phair

We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!

— Tara Strong

I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.

— Matt Berninger

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

— Tierra Whack

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

— John Coltrane

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

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

— Dan Bejar

The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never…

— William Cowper

I take sounds and change them into words.

— Brian Eno

I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this stuff. You…

— Jaimoe

I always try, when I'm singing songs, to interpret them the way that I would've arranged them. I think about the melody first, and…

— Melanie Martinez