Natalia Lafourcade Quotes

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

When it comes to song creation, I throw in my ideas and have it discussed with the producer. The song gets its own characteristic as new ideas are incorporated.

It's funny: I look at songs, and I guess they each tell a story, and the different songs talk about different things. But they're unified by the rhythm underneath and the way that we decided to arrange and play them.

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

I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to figure out what it needs in a production sense.

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

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

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

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

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

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

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

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

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

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

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.

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.

I just play the guitar and write songs.

I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.

Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.