Leon Russell Quotes

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

I started writing songs at age 15.

I like making songs up. Whether or not they're great songs or good songs, whatever. It's something I've always done, and I definitely feel like I've gotten better at it.

I've always idolized people who can write songs.

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.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

Melodies are important. I always kind of pride myself on my melodies.

I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

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

I really love writing themes and melody.

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

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

I started writing songs at 17.

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I've been writing songs since my teens.

I wrote my first song, called Spectator,' when I was 11.

Writing songs, especially with the instrumental stuff, it's difficult.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

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