Leon Russell Quotes

My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.

Basically, I'm a melodic writer.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

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.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

I am really heavy into songwriting.

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

We didn't want to worry about the formula that has been implanted into our brains - this verse/pre-chorus/chorus format. When we were writing 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea about any of that. We didn't know how to count bars or how to write what's considered a well-formatted pop song.

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

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as writing hit songs that you pitch to the national artist, I just don't write that way.

I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at.

There's two things that are tough when you're trying to be a songwriter: Number one is, how do I write a great song? The second thing is, how do I write a great song that's right for me?

Songwriting is what I am trying to stay good at and get better at.

I'm used to making songs; that's how I learned to make music. My structures will always be more like pop songs than dance tracks.

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself.

I'm pretty good at delivering my songs, but I just want to perfect the craft by creating melodies.

I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music.

I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my own stuff or play solos. I can accompany myself 'cause most songs are, like, four chords.

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.

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

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.