Adam Granduciel Quotes

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

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.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.

I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.

I write all my hooks.

My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.

I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

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

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

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.

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

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

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

I first write melodies that will make people shiver, and then, I add the lyrics.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

I always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we're 90 per cent there.

Basically, I'm a melodic writer.