Ross Lynch Quotes

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

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

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.

When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.

Breaking Benjamin, talk about songwriting, I mean, some of the greatest songwriters of the modern era. And, obviously, it's a little heavier.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

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

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

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

I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

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 good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.

The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that flows together, that brings you back.

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.

To be honest, I don't have a particular recipe, but I normally start with the chord progression and then I build it from there. I listen to a lot of jazz, so the chords are really important to me.

I like to always do my best to make music catchy, so I think a very catchy melody is cool.

People think the chorus is the hard part in 'Take on Me,' but they're wrong. The hard part was making the verses bounce.

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

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

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.

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.