Dar Williams Quotes

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

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

When you write a song, a song has longevity.

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

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

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.

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.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

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

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

Composing music is hard work.

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

I generally, you know, I don't - I don't really scat. I'm - I'm basically a songwriter so you need a little lyrics that rhyme and stuff.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

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

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

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and it's really, really hard to write lyrics that actually obey the vowel sounds.

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.