Abandon Quote by Robbie Robertson

It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new…

— Robbie Robertson

If you don't have a great chorus, write a good bridge first. I often do that and find I write good bridges.

— Rick Nielsen

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay,…

— Lucinda Williams

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

— Eugene Chadbourne

Bad Name' is just that head-nod, traditional loop over a breakbeat, chopped up, and it sounds like the way I do my thing.

— DJ Premier

If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not…

— Kacey Musgraves

Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't…

— Bob Dylan

We don't want to name our songs after the choruses, so we sometimes come up with random titles. We don't care if people don't…

— Shavo Odadjian

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

— Gene Brown

I've gotten to a point where I don't want lyrics to mean anything.

— Mary Timony

I feel if you make the song good enough, structurally and sonically, then you can literally do whatever you want with the lyrics.

— CMAT

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

— Jim Capaldi