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When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

— Trey Parker

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

— Flume

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

— Jessi Colter

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

— Zedd

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 always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

— Kate DiCamillo

I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.

— Taylor Swift

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

— Caroline Corr

✗Opposing Perspectives

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

— John Lydon

The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

— Yoko Ono

I tend to write at the piano, but usually the melody and lyrics come first. Like, I'll be in the shower, and I'll start singing, and the melody and the lyric will just come out. Then I'll quickly try to finish the shower, try to remember it, record it on my phone and save it for the studio.

— Eliza Doolittle