Geezer Butler Quotes

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

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

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

I write the best songs I can.

It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.

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

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.

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.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

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

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

There are no rules to writing a song.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.

The thing I ran up against was everybody wanted a song so fast. It took me two years to finish 'Touch Me in the Morning.'

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.

It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.

When we write songs, we don't ever sit down to write an Old Dominion song. We just sit down to write the best song we possibly can.