Zedd Quotes

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I write my music.

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.

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

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

When I write, I write the drum beat. Though sometimes I write on piano or guitar.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

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

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

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

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.

I write music visually.

Composing music is hard work.

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.

To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a great riff, we've got a fighting chance of writing a great song!

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

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.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.