Roger Taylor Quotes

It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question.

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

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

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

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

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

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 don't sit down to write a song, per se.

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.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

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.

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.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.

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

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story I'm telling. Then I start building little bridges - word bridges - to make everything go from one point to the next point to the next point until it reaches the end.

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.