Avicii Quotes

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

I wasn't worried about flash or persona... It's all about writing a good, solid song.

It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.

I've always had good songs, it's the great songs that are difficult to find.

Whenever I write anything, I do sing to it, to try and make sure it's interesting or compelling to sing to. I've gotten in the habit of sharing that with other, more charismatic vocalists.

Language' is, I think, my favorite song that I've ever written.

I love a beautiful, soaring, singable melody. But what really draws me to a song, at the end of the day, is the words.

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

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.

I love writing songs.

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.