Richie Sambora Quotes

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

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.

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've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

There's two things that are tough when you're trying to be a songwriter: Number one is, how do I write a great song? The second thing is, how do I write a great song that's right for me?

I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally, but some other times I already have a strong idea of the story I would like to sing before any music comes to my mind.

I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself.

I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

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.

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

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

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.