Fragments Quote by Tracy Chapman

Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I…

— Gotye

In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about the characters,…

— Jerry Garcia

Sometimes melody and sometimes lyrics. It depends on the tempo and feel of the song. Slower pieces usually begin with melody and faster ones…

— Ronnie James Dio

A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each…

— Robert Hunter

The thing is, the way we write is all jams and bits and pieces that get pieced together and sometimes things are written with…

— Danny Carey

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

— Dexter Gordon

You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked…

— PJ Harvey

Sometimes song happens all at once where you sit down and the lyrics and the music just come out. So there definitely isn't one…

— Jonathan Jackson

When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in…

— PJ Harvey

Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it's your job to chip away and find out what's…

— Brett Dennen

Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or…

— Sarah Dessen

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

— Aaron Copland