Bridges Quote by Petra Haden

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and…

— Kelela

I started singing when I was a teenager. I always wanted to write songs; I just didn't understand how someone could sing without writing…

— Olivia Merilahti

Usually what I do is I write my vocal melody over guitar parts and then I come up with lyrics.

— Hope Sandoval

I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.

— Autre Ne Veut

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches,…

— Ian Anderson

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I…

— Kim Gordon

I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted…

— Bob Dylan

Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write…

— Leon Bridges

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not…

— Glenn Danzig

I always wanted to sing. I didn't know how to do it. I didn't know how to make the singing thing happen.

— Rita Wilson

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse…

— Jackson Browne

I sort of just wrote the songs, the way I wanted to write them, sing them the way I wanted to sing them, perform…

— Johnny Reid