Edgar Winter Quotes

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

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

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.

Songwriting's a weird game.

One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

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.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

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

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

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

I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.

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.

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

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

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

Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

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.

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

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

When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.