Chords Quote by Patti Smith

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

— Amy Winehouse

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.

— Johnny Flynn

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

— Adrian Mitchell

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas

— Kim Gordon

I always wanted to make rock music as well or as an element of what I do.

— Princess Nokia

I wanted to make some music with deeper meaning mixed with the fun and cool stuff I've been doing for so long.

— Princess Superstar

I did go through a phase of reading a lot of poetry and getting heavily into philosophy and ended up writing things that weren't…

— Katie Melua

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

— Andrew Bird

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

— Stephen Sondheim

I was already writing poetry, so I transitioned from writing poetry a cappella to writing over beats, and it was way more exciting to…

— Saweetie

I didn't want to box myself into writing just rock music because you can try to force it into moments that don't want it.

— Tom Kitt

I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.

— Jay IDK