Jules Shear Quotes

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

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

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

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

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires.

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

I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

On a good night, I probably make three songs, and none of them are full songs.

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.

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

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

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

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

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.