Around Quote by Trey Parker

It's funny when you write a song - it's easy for me now - but there's almost a second stage where you take control…

— Kate Bush

Well I mean I just sit at the piano and maybe figure out some harmony or melody or both. Sometimes you can hear it…

— Roy Hargrove

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

— John Lydon

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

— Oscar Isaac

I sit and I write automatically. I don't really try to write. My subconscious mind takes over and writes the songs for me. Songs…

— Brian Wilson

The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't…

— Yoko Ono

I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause they all…

— Francis Dunnery

I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music.…

— Flume

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that…

— Gerard Way

Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.

— John Legend

I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't…

— John Prine

In a certain sense, every time you sit down to write a song, there's a fear that you've forgotten how to do it.

— Matthew Ramsey