John Rzeznik Quotes

My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

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.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

I'm touched by Jon Hendricks. I want some of my music to reflect that. And when I write, you're going to hear it.

I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.

I think any great song is difficult to write, in some aspect. It's just difficult to make somebody feel something. That is the main goal. How do you make somebody want to get up and dance? How do you make somebody feel okay after their breakup?

You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.

I wrote my first song in the first or second grade.

All that really moves me is music.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

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

You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

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

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even the most banal moments of my life.

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.