Concepts Quote by Tommy Lee

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes…

— Neil Diamond

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

— Rory Sutherland

A song is a poem set to music.

— Tom T. Hall

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody…

— Chester Bennington

Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires.

— Alison Goldfrapp

The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our…

— Edward Hirsch

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

— Gordon Waller

It is poetry that changes everything.

— Bell Hooks

I'm never sure if I'll ever write another song, what the song will be about and if what initially sparked the beginning of a…

— Tracy Chapman

The song could start with a riff that I base the song around. Or a chord progression or a melody I have, I just…

— Orianthi

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

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

— Thomas Aquinas