Evolve Quote by Tom Waits

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of…

— Anonymous

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

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

To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other…

— Ryan Adams

When you listen deeply to a song, you find all the little sounds they use and subconsciously learn how to produce and mix.

— Rich Brian

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

— Oscar Isaac

When I write a song, I hear the music and words at the same time - one suggests the form of the other.

— Leslie Bricusse

Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and…

— Chris de Burgh

Once I discovered music and that you don't need to just use words but can add a growl to the melody, that releases so…

— Banks

I guess people naturally try to find meaning in music.

— Girl Talk

Sometimes the word dictated the melody.

— Andrew Bird

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly…

— Tori Amos