Begin Quote by Nobuo Uematsu

No matter what I'm writing, I almost always start with the music. Definitely, the melody seems to set the tone for whatever emotions come…

— Ryan Bingham

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

— Sigrid

When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes…

— Francoise Hardy

I love melodies so it's usually where I start.

— Sydney Sierota

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first…

— Brian Eno

Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first.

— Flume

When I'm writing with John Leventhal, the music that he's written mostly comes first. And I'll write the lyrics and the melody.

— Shawn Colvin

Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming…

— Yelawolf

What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess I'm quite…

— Bjork

I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally, but some…

— Tarja Turunen

Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into soul, and…

— Emeli Sande

I'll generally always get melody first and then I'll go in and try and think of a title and lyrics generally come last.

— Guy Sebastian