Brian Eno Quotes

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

I write my music.

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 write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.

I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.

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

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

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.

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

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

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

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.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.