Christine Lavin Quotes

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

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 wrote a song called 'Pretty Little Dead Girl.'

I just love catchy melodies.

I like hooks and choruses, things people can sing to.

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.

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.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

Life is a song to me.

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

I like songs that are simple.

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

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.

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

Our songs all carry the same way.

Lyrics is the face of any song. The combination of composition, lyrics and singing is what makes a song a song.

I write all my hooks.

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

A song is a burden that you carry happily.

Songs are easy to remember because they have rhythm and music.

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