Jeff Lynne Quotes

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

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

'Nova' was one of the tracks that inspired me to create 'Fade,' which later became 'Faded'. It has a beautiful melody, and the way it progresses throughout the whole track is just amazing!

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.

I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.

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

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

I didn't just sit down and write 'Summer In Kingston' from scratch; it came about from a bunch of songs I already had.

It doesn't take long to make catchy songs. That's not my problem.

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

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

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

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 think my favorite thing is songwriting.

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 not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

I find I'm not one of these composers that are, you know, walking along a beach or walking on the mountainside in County Donegal that's, you know, 'Oh, a melody.' It's more a matter of eventually taking that moment with me to the studio, and it begins to evolve.

I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick up the guitar to develop the song. Other times I just write without any melodies, and I end up using those lyrics when I think I have the appropriate instrumental that would bring out and depict the emotions of what I have written.

I love writing songs.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

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

I always begin to compose the melody first.

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.