After Quote by Robert Hunter

Look, when a song becomes a hit, it happens because of its tune and melody, and not for the lyrics in the first place.

— Gulzar

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

When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't…

— Edward Hirsch

It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It…

— Manika

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

It's different obviously with a song when you're talking about narrative, you're talking about the verse leading into the chorus or whatever it is,…

— Shura

A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it…

— St. Vincent

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on…

— Van Morrison

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful…

— Paul McCartney

When I write a song, that process is sort of entwined with a lyric or a chord progression that suits the vibe, and that'll…

— Michelle Zauner

Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds. It comes…

— David Berman

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the…

— Paul Valery