Trey Parker Quotes

I really, really like writing songs.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.

Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

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

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

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.

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

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.

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

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.

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.

I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words.

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

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

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

I'm creating songs. I do it most of the time, in the car or in the house.

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

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