Jonas Blue Quotes

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

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.

I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

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.

When I'm writing with John Leventhal, the music that he's written mostly comes first. And I'll write the lyrics and the melody.

I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.

I usually write lyrics first, and then when I get home or close to any kind of instrument, I usually make a melody for those lyrics.

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

Basically, I'm a melodic writer.

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

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.

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

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

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'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

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

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.

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

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.