Polo G Quotes

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

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

Music is an important part of my writing process.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.

I feel like a hit will come whenever it does, but I don't want to sit in a studio trying to figure out the magic formula and mixing spices and trying to come up with the perfect song.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

If I don't feel it when I'm sitting there, if it doesn't give me the feeling I got when I heard 'Pony' or 'So Anxious' or 'In Those Jeans,' I scrap it.

As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

I find it really easy to write on the bass, because you kind of get straight to the point: you do lyrics and melody without thinking about decorating the song until after you've finished it.

I don't want to focus too much on trying to write a song for radio.

I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to figure out what it needs in a production sense.

The songs will come as they come, and I'm excited because I haven't gotten to be really creative in a while. I'm excited to get back and do what I do and just write a song.

It doesn't take long to make catchy songs. That's not my problem.

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

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.