Ideas Quote by Sarah Vaughan

I never write a tune before the lyrics. I get the lyrics and then I write around them. Some people write music and the…

— James Dean Bradfield

I always try, when I'm singing songs, to interpret them the way that I would've arranged them. I think about the melody first, and…

— Melanie Martinez

For me, lyrics are the most important thing in a song. And if they don't have meaning, I would never sing them - unless…

— Atif Aslam

When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has…

— Craig David

I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic ideas, and…

— Melora Hardin

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

— Leon Bridges

For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first.

— Julie Andrews

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

— Eddie Van Halen

Because I write the music, I write the lyrics, I write the vocal melody lines - I write everything. Just because I let somebody…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.

— John Legend

For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to music; I'm…

— Cornelius Eady