Different Quote by Valerie June

I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's been. The…

— Bruce Cockburn

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches,…

— Ian Anderson

It's been neat to find out different writing strategies. I've been in the room with so many different writers. Sometimes, you write with tracks,…

— Kane Brown

It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It…

— Manika

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

— Bryan Adams

The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going…

— Matthew Ramsey

I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So…

— Billy Bob Thornton

When I'm writing with John Leventhal, the music that he's written mostly comes first. And I'll write the lyrics and the melody.

— Shawn Colvin

It's much easier to write a song for a musical than just writing a song because, writing for a musical, you know what the…

— Leslie Bricusse

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write…

— Jon Foreman

I approach song writing three different ways. One way is where I write the initial melody and lyrics first and then take it in…

— Manika

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

— Jann Klose