Nicky Jam Quotes

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

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.

I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

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

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.

When I learning to write songs, I never really was interested in the chorus.

When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and it's really, really hard to write lyrics that actually obey the vowel sounds.

I always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we're 90 per cent there.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.

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

It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question.

It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music - my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

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.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.