Anderson Paak Quotes

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

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

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.

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

I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.

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.

It varies from song to song, but melody was always easy for me.

When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has to respect the melody.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

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.

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

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

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.

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.

Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.

Songwriting's a weird game.

I don't enjoy songwriting.

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 think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem.

A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

I really, really like writing songs.

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

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