Tory Lanez Quotes

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.

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.

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

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.

I'm used to making songs; that's how I learned to make music. My structures will always be more like pop songs than dance tracks.

If I don't feel it when I'm sitting there, if it doesn't give me the feeling I got when I heard 'Pony' or 'So Anxious' or 'In Those Jeans,' I scrap it.

If you're thinking about making a hit song, and you think I want everybody in the world to love it, then you kind of make it up, and you do it.

On a good night, I probably make three songs, and none of them are full songs.

I love to work with producers who are very good with their chord progressions.

The songs will come as they come, and I'm excited because I haven't gotten to be really creative in a while. I'm excited to get back and do what I do and just write a song.

Making vocal hooks is my favorite thing to do. That's what I love about songwriting - making catchy stuff.

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

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

I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.

When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

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.

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.