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I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

— Joan Armatrading

I usually write lyrics first, and then when I get home or close to any kind of instrument, I usually make a melody for those lyrics.

— Aurora

When I sing a tune, the lyrics are important to me. Most of the standard lyrics I know well. And as soon as I hear an arrangement, I get ideas, kind of like blowing a horn. I guess I never sing a tune the same way twice.

— Sarah Vaughan

I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

— Kerry King

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

— Melissa Etheridge

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

— Lyle Lovett

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

— Carole King

When you're writing a song, you have to know two things. You have to know who you are, and you have to think about other people.

— Michael Masser

✗Opposing Perspectives

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

— Leon Bridges

When you write a song, you don't ask if it's good or not, or if it's gonna sell. When you write a song, you ask whether you've reached deep inside your heart and whether it's honest.

— Michael Masser