Giving Quote by Zach Condon

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

— Jo Stafford

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

— Kurt Elling

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.

— Paul McCartney

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

— James Blake

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

— Brian Eno

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

— Dexter Gordon

The songs that work best are broad lyrically and have one strong concept in the metaphor.

— Sia

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting…

— Brian Eno

The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know…

— Tones and I

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.

— Jon Foreman

I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for…

— GRiZ

I don't really write music in the traditional sense of chorus, verse. It's more experimental sounding. The process comes from an experimentation with noise.

— Bonobo