Musical Flow Quotes

It's such a weird process, songwriting, because you just have to feel it. There's no right or wrong melody or lyric.

It's easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out.

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

I just hear a beat and start mumbling words. I just hear sounds and rhythms, and it just kind of comes intuitively. Formatting a song, figuring out a flow, how I respond to the beat.

I wanted to make an album that plays from the top to bottom and feels together and complete. That's just something that felt important.

I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.

I'm versatile, so however the beat makes me go on it, that's just what it do.

I don't write; I just go in the booth.

It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.

I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes.

I don't ever really plan my sets. I just get out there and feel the energy of the crowd.

I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing.

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know? Andit's designed to move swiftly from, you know, mouth to mouth, heart to heart,where a poem really speaks to something that has no time and that is - it's acompletely different perception.

I can't force myself to make up a song. Music comes to me naturally.

Sonnet is about movement in a form.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.

I used to do three or four songs a day, just write them - boom, boom, boom, and done - because of how spontaneous I was.

I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.