“Wherever inspiration comes from, it's like I'll hear a melody and chords, almost a rough structure of the whole thing [song]. I'll just hear it and chase what's in my head. The rest comes from jamming with band, improvising, seeing what comes up as well. I'll come up with it off the top of my head, catch it, sing and hum, and if something is missing, just jam, and that's the [songwriting] process.” IfsWellsWholeInspirationSongProcessSeeingMissingBandStructureCome UpRoughMelodySongwritingWriting ProcessChordsJamImprovising Author:Chris Wyse
“I don't have some songwriting formula that I kinda go by. Usually it just comes by way of inspiration. Sometimes I'm inspired by a melody first and sometimes I'm inspired by a lyric. Typically, I'm inspired by an idea for a lyric and then after we get the lyric going then we write a melody to it.” WayWritingFirstsIdeasSometimesInspirationInspiredMelodySongwritingFormulas Author:Natalie Grant
“There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may be a word. It may be a phrase. It may be a title. Sometimes, in the best of both worlds, that divine inspiration extends through the whole song. I've literally sat down and written a song from beginning to end, almost complete lyrics and everything without ever stopping...in two minutes. The chorus of 'She's Gone' was like that.” WorldWritingMayTwoIdeasEndsSometimesWholeInspirationSongGoneWrittenMinutesDivineDown AndCraftsTitlesPhrasesSatSongwritingStoppingChorusDivine InspirationBest Of Both Worlds Author:John Oates
“Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.” ThinkingKnowsMenWritingTryingFirstsWellsLooksMeanI CanPlayWholeInspirationHappensTogetherSongGrowsCausesSpecialPicksFirst TimeGuitarPlentyTunesSongwriting Author:Bob Marley
“Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have to finish them.” KindInspirationSongHalfSongwriting Author:Win Butler
“To me, music and songwriting is... part of the intriguing thing is the creative process; you know, the creative thought process. Relying on that... there is some sort of inspiration there and you can't always put your finger on where it comes from. So, it's always been important for me to have my own thing and, even though I'm inspired by and influenced by many different musicians and styles of music, I was very determined early on to have my own thing. So when I sit down to write I don't necessarily have a particular narrative or message in mind. I'm interested in language and in words.” KnowsWritingMindImportantDifferentInspirationLanguageProcessMy OwnCreativeStyleParticularMessagesMusicianFingersInspiredDeterminedNarrativeSongwritingCreative ProcessIntriguingThought ProcessCreative Thought Author:Page Hamilton
“I feel like the inspiration is that I've managed to change my songwriting over the past couple of years and also production styles. I could get a sense of what really worked well, and I think this sound developed naturally. That's what happens when you're doing it all the time and changing as a person. Some songs were really dark, and others were more psychedelic. It was useful to have that to figure out exactly what I wanted to do.” ThinkingInspirationPastSongDarkStyleCoupleSongwritingPsychedelicOver The Past Author:Marika Hackman
“You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.” StillsI CanInspirationGamesWaitingMysteryMethodSongwriting Author:Conor Oberst
“My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.” InspirationDirectorsSongwritingSoleTelephones Author:Cole Porter
“As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.” PeopleInspirationSituationLife And DeathLove LifeSongwriting Author:Ed Sheeran