Approach Quote by Steve Vai

Songs are snapshots of things - it's likened to looking at pictures. It will never feel like it felt in real life. When you…

— Michael Benjamin Lerner

Songs are snapshots of things - it's likened to looking at pictures.

— Michael Benjamin Lerner

I think, sometimes, artists release music too fast. If you just sit back and listen to the track for a little bit you could…

— Schoolboy Q

With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching…

— Anonymous

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny…

— Chris Cornell

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

There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion…

— Beck

You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.

— Conor Oberst

When you're in the moment and not over thinking the song is when things tend to really work. You're not so focused on the…

— Adam Granduciel

Usually, I think of the song, and then the video plays out in my head as I'm writing the song. I started rapping to…

— Lil Dicky

Each song has its own way that it likes to be done, but it can be more than one way. If you tap into…

— Rhiannon Giddens

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