Dawn Richard Quotes

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a very simple-sounding musical style that's actually quite complex as far as popular songs are concerned.

I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be Strokes, some of it will be I don't know what - stuff for pop singers. TV themes. I've got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are just me humming into a recording device.

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

I think there's a good pop song in pretty much anything.

I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.

I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn't have crafty pop songs where it sort of didn't matter who played them because they're just really great songs.

I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.

I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.

I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.

I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.

People always talk about the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, but I like his melodies. They are very defined and original.

With Audioslave, it's all about melody and chord progressions.

Not playing guitar on 'World On Fire' gave me additional time to fine-tune lyrics and melodies, which improved the songs in the end. I'm very happy with how it turned out.

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

Fleet Foxes are a really talented band. They make beautiful music.

I don't really focus on if what I'm writing is pop or not. I just write music and then I try to figure out how to arrange the things that I write.

I love to work with producers who are very good with their chord progressions.

Every once in a while, I find something that I'm interested in just because of the singing, like the Goo Goo Dolls.

Sara Bareilles is one of my favorite singer-songwriters of all time.

I'm pretty into music. Anything with music I love... I'm really big on lyrical content plus a good beat.

I have experimented with various genres of music, whether its rock, pop, slow songs, etc.

All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.