Bjorn Ulvaeus Quotes

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've twisted it and pulled at it and dug in and found a way to complete it. To get another one is the trick.

There's no secret, but inspiration has to find you working. And that's one of the key things that I've always remembered. And if I put my mind to it tonight, I think I could take a guitar, and by 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, something will have happened - I'll have had something to hang onto. But I think that's the key.

Some songs just fall out of you. And some you have to wrestle out like an abscess.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

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

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.

My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere.

It all comes together. It's - that's the way it's always worked for me with songwriting.

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

A lot of times, a bunch of songs have to be written to get to the next really good one.

The art of songwriting is just stumbling your way to something really special, and you don't know what you're going to write until you are writing it. There is no formula. And, sometimes, you really have to work at it and hunker down.

I have to be inspired to write a song.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and energy and self discipline into creating that kind of thing.