Julia Holter Quotes

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

Songs are easy to remember because they have rhythm and music.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

I like hooks and choruses, things people can sing to.

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

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.

Life is a song to me.

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. A lot of times I have, and the song wasn't that good, but I would get lost in that melody, and I'd want to do the song.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

I like songs that are simple.

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

Our songs all carry the same way.

I like lyrics a lot.

I just love catchy melodies.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

I love good beats and good lyrics. I'm pretty open.

When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

I think there's a good pop song in pretty much anything.

It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.