Decided Quote by Nicky Wire

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a…

— Rick Wright

We are always writing music.

— Shavo Odadjian

I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.

— Jay Watson

Writing music is just like writing a book.

— Billie Eilish

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that…

— Ken Hill

It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.

— Johnny Mercer

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

— Tom Araya

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they…

— Valerie June

We write music because we have to; it's a part of our very being.

— M. Shadows

The curse of being a songwriter is that's you're always at work. I could look out the window right now and see something that…

— Chris Stapleton

I've always idolized people who can write songs.

— RuPaul