Banging Quote by Phil Collins

Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it's your job to chip away and find out what's…

— Brett Dennen

With every song, all the elements have to work. First, the beat has to be great - you start there. You start with the…

— Eminem

I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess…

— Britney Spears

Sometimes song happens all at once where you sit down and the lyrics and the music just come out. So there definitely isn't one…

— Jonathan Jackson

I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It…

— Ringo Starr

There are times where I'm just open to receive songs. I sit down, and a jam will just come out, all at once. It's…

— Benji Hughes

It's just like an idea, like a chorus, and then we just jam on it - it happens in loads of different ways. The…

— Luke Pritchard

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common…

— Tim Finn

The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story…

— Jeff Mangum

There are so many different things that lend themselves to what makes a song magical, that go beyond just the lyrics or the composition.…

— Michelle Zauner

Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and…

— Chris de Burgh

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.

— Stephen Malkmus