Ro James 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.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.

I write all my hooks.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.

I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

I really, really like writing songs.

I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.

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.

I love writing songs.

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.

I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

I listen to everything and find parts about a song in the lyrics/melody/chords/production that I like and can be inspired by when I write my next song.

When I learning to write songs, I never really was interested in the chorus.

Songs come to me and I hear them. At least in part, they are very complete; I hear the whole chorus, including the drum pattern, the base, the countermelody, the basic harmonic structure and the main thrust of the lyric.

I like to write lyrics when I feel it, and because of that, I like to keep a log of lyrics all the time.

I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.