Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes

I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

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

I really had a great time working with 'Modest Mouse,' just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

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

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.

I'd love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.

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

I put all those synthesizer sounds behind "Decoy" and "Code M.D." A lot of things we write together. A lot of things are his, but they don't have that thing I want on the bottom. I often tell him, I say, "Bobby [Irving], if there's a melody, there's another one somewhere that goes with it."

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

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

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

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

I write my music.

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

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

Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.