Alicia Witt Quotes

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

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.

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

I write my music.

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

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

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

I am an inventor of music.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home.

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.