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I'll generally always get melody first and then I'll go in and try and think of a title and lyrics generally come last.

— Guy Sebastian

It's rare that I'll write lyrics first. If I come up with some good lyrics, I'll write them down and try to use them…

— Rob Crow

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the…

— Dolly Parton

Sometimes I'll hear some music in my head or I'll go to the piano and mess around and come up with a tune, or…

— Shuggie Otis

I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's been. The…

— Bruce Cockburn

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

— Elton John

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

— Wayne Coyne

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

When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction.…

— Juliana Hatfield

I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

— Grace Potter

On the first two albums, I essentially began with lyrics and placed the music underneath or around the words.

— Perfume Genius

As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, "Oh, that'd be…

— Andy Summers