Music Quote by Leslie Bricusse

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

— Oscar Isaac

Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.

— Tom Waits

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.

— Ilaiyaraaja

Playing with words is like combining different notes in music.

— Shankar Mahadevan

When I write a song, the music comes from my spirit, which is very playful and optimistic, but then the lyrics come from my…

— Mark Foster

When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music…

— John McLaughlin

I think that's the only way I know how to write songs, is to think about my life, and also to think about the…

— Rostam Batmanglij

You have certain expressions when you write music, a lot of different emotions, a lot of different feelings.

— Phil Anselmo

Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds. It comes…

— David Berman

I try not to write two songs about the same thing, although, on occasion, it happens, so I guess it kinda helps to change…

— Teddy Geiger

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

— Anonymous

If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same…

— Billie Eilish