Sting Quotes

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

Composing music is hard work.

I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

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

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

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

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

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

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

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 really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

I generally, you know, I don't - I don't really scat. I'm - I'm basically a songwriter so you need a little lyrics that rhyme and stuff.

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

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

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

I still remember how hard I worked on the tune of 'Raree rareeram... ;' the first tune I tried was rejected.

I write lyrics. putting words and melodies to my songs. That's a real challenge, I take it on vigorously.

Writing songs, especially with the instrumental stuff, it's difficult.

Every song is a long process. First I have to write a story for it, and then to make it into a song, I have to make it short and then shorter - so it's not easy!

Writing a song is work. You have to go deep in order to mine the material and dig it out.