Making Quote by MNEK

I write tunes about what people say, whatever they say.

— Fats Domino

Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say.

— Rodney Crowell

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually…

— Brenda Russell

I never write a tune before the lyrics. I get the lyrics and then I write around them. Some people write music and the…

— James Dean Bradfield

I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.

— Matt Bellamy

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

— Jerome Kern

“Here," I say. "You can put music behind it, and it will be your own." And it strikes me that this is how writing…

— Ally Condie

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.

— William Beckett

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 write songs, and there is a definite need to express myself through my music.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

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

— Oscar Isaac

That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

— RaeLynn