Melodic Ideas Quotes

I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.

I sleep music. I wake up, and there's a riff in my head. Every step I take, there's a riff, a beat, or something.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious.

I have to be inspired to write a song.

I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic ideas, and then I'll go home and sit down and add the lyrics. Or sometimes I'll get a lyric idea that I love. Usually it's pretty combined. Usually I get some kind of a lyrical concept and a melody and work with that.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.

I could fall asleep at 10:30 watching 'Hill Street Blues.' I might wake up at 1 A.M. and have a riff in my head.

Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.

What I can feel the most and what I can remember the most are the melodies I want to write to.

I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried and tried, but I just can't seem to find a melody.

It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new and you got to write it down.

Sometimes I can't sleep 'cause I can't get a melody or a beat out my head, so I just have to wake up and, like, record it on a voice note.

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

It's never like, 'Now I'm going to sit down and write this or that kind of song.' The melodies may show up in the car, in the shower.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

A song kind of comes out of anywhere. A song will come out of the sky, or an idea, or walking around, or playing with other guys.

I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes, and sometimes it lasts all day.

It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.