Lauren Mayberry Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Everyone's [ me, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty] equally involved in all the writing. Normally we'll start with a sample or a drumbeat, or a synth sound or something like that, and that will spark the initial idea. And then we'll write an instrumental sketch of a song, and then we put on a nonsense vocal melody, which is always my favourite bit because it obviously sounds amazing.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Writing, Ideas

• No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose. For me, it's always about melody - it doesn't matter what genre of music you're writing, if there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Strong, Writing

• I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, People, Trying

• It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part decision making process, it's not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs. It's startling how many people make that assumption.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Girl, Song, Writing

• I've definitely read interviews with people where they've explained exactly what they wrote something about and I've been like: "Oh no, I was thinking that was a really beautiful love song or a really sad thing."

  Lauren Mayberry

  Beautiful, Song, Thinking

• A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Thinking, People

• No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Writing, People

• I've been in bands since I was about fifteen, so there are probably quite a lot of terrible teenage songs kicking about somewhere. I'm not sure what it was about to be honest, I think it was probably just something along the lines of teen angst.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Teenage, Thinking

• For us, the stuff we know is writing songs, playing shows, and that's what we're trying to concentrate on. Not trying to read about yourselves or looking up things about yourselves on the Internet - it's the key, or you'll go insane!

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Writing, Keys

• I think I have a vested interest in thinking that the lyrics are important, but I think for us it's important that we all write things that mean something to us, and I think we're not really in the business of writing la-la-love-you chart pop songs. It needs to have a personal pulling in the gut for me, to want to write anything about it.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Love You, Writing

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