Ayumi Hamasaki 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 write my music.

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

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.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

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

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.

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

The thing I ran up against was everybody wanted a song so fast. It took me two years to finish 'Touch Me in the Morning.'

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.

My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

Composing music is hard work.

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.

When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and it's really, really hard to write lyrics that actually obey the vowel sounds.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

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

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

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.