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When I play the first few notes of a song and people start screaming, I think: 'That's why I did this. That's why I…

— Dennis DeYoung

When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good…

— Lyle Lovett

When I learning to write songs, I never really was interested in the chorus.

— Adam Granduciel

So you can be about your business, and then on it comes again. And this time you're ready, and you've got a wine glass…

— Nick Lowe

Even when we first got put together we always said we wanted to do music to inspire people, that was our main aim. We…

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

I got involved, for the most part, in the actual song construction, lyrics even. I didn't want to write the lyrics, but if there…

— Michael Gira

I've got my interests and my life experiences as I'm putting lyrics together. And if you start looking at patterns, you start thinking, 'Well,…

— Matt Bellamy

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer…

— Ben Harper

I'm introverted, and I pay attention to my muse... Record companies used to go mad and say 'We don't know the deal with you.…

— Robert Palmer

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

— Anonymous

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a…

— Vince Clarke

I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.

— Tommy Shaw