Roy Harper Quotes

It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

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

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.

I generally, you know, I don't - I don't really scat. I'm - I'm basically a songwriter so you need a little lyrics that rhyme and stuff.

When I write a song, I want to write something that is really catchy and says something that might actually touch somebody.

Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

I'm a songwriter.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.