#irs

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about. ↗

— John Legend

#because #bunch #come #first #hook

My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic choices, in the way that I sing and write songs. I have always had that as part of my background and part of my influence when I am making music. ↗

— John Legend

#always #am #as far as #background #choices

My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade, but it didn't go so well. Later, I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success. ↗

— John Legend

#come #fifth #first #go #grade

I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#been #believe #communion #despite #first

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#first #jokes #opinion #shouting #story

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#exactly #figure #first #full-time #full-time job

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#everyone #first #first thing #go #me

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#first #friends #good #good friends #him

I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago. ↗

— Paul Winchell

#disney #first #i #met #walt

I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world. ↗

— Mario Lemeiux

#along #been #family #first #frustrating