Verse Chorus Form Quotes

You grow as a writer when you learn how to make songs flow from start to finish. That's the best song, when it's such a seamless process to get to this release at the chorus, this euphoric feeling. That's why the Beatles were so good - they did such a good job building so much tension in the beginning to this immaculate release, and then it ends.

They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are.

I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.

If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written for the page, your eye can skip up and down. You can see the thing whole. But you're not going to see the thing whole in the song. You're going to hear it in series, and you can't skip back.

In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

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

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

The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.

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

I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.

Lyrically, the most important thing for me is, how can I tell a cohesive story?