Barry Manilow Quotes

Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

I think there's a good pop song in pretty much anything.

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

Anyone who says it's so easy to write a country hit and that it's just a formula - well, try it sometime. If it was that easy, everybody would be doing it.

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

I've wanted to do a Christmas song for years but thought every lyric and melody had been written.

I really don't do concept stuff very well. If I'm sitting thinking about what kind of song I want to write, within a few minutes, I'm kind of bored. It's just a personal thing for me.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as hard; it doesn't get easier, but that's why I love it: because it's a challenge every time. I also feel like I'm learning new ways.

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

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

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.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

I love Sara Bareilles. She's just so clever. I wish I were her. She's so awesome.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

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

People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.