Glenn Frey Quotes

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.

The original 'Don't Let It Get to You' started with a beat. The drums came first. All the musical and lyrical elements were written over those drums.

When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.

I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to figure out what it needs in a production sense.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.

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

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

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.

I wrote a song called 'Pretty Little Dead Girl.'

With Audioslave, it's all about melody and chord progressions.

I record into my phone as soon as I hear a track. Melody comes first for me, and then my gibberish usually forms into lyrics and a concept from there.

I like to always do my best to make music catchy, so I think a very catchy melody is cool.

When it comes to song creation, I throw in my ideas and have it discussed with the producer. The song gets its own characteristic as new ideas are incorporated.

I worked on 'Cadillactica' with the mind to not sample as much and focus on creativity.

I don't really focus on if what I'm writing is pop or not. I just write music and then I try to figure out how to arrange the things that I write.

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.

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.

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

I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

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