What is "brick by brick"

adv. (context idiomatic English) to create or build something in a steady, step-by-step fashion.

Brick by Brick is the tenth studio album by American singer Iggy Pop, released in June 1990 by record label Virgin.

"Brick by Brick" is a song by Arctic Monkeys from the band's fourth album Suck It and See. The song was the first track to be revealed from the album, on 4 March 2011, and was designed as a teaser for the album rather than a lead single. The lead single was instead " Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair" which was released digitally on 12 April. A limited-edition white-label seven-inch vinyl version of "Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair" released on 16 April featured "Brick by Brick" as its B-side.

Alex Turner explained the story of the song to NME: "We were in Miami on tour once and we just got off a long flight to there and we had an idea for a song called 'Brick By Brick' and so we wrote it that night just sorta in a bar. But it was quite loose, we thought about it as the concept of a song and all these things that you want to do- brick by brick- and we just made a list of them that was probably three times as long as what it ended up over that night and the next few weeks."

The song is intentionally brief and humorous, with Turner claiming that it was meant to include fewer than 30 words, "since we always do songs with a thousand words", an approach borrowed from Iggy Pop. "Even though it is dumbed down, we know it, and it's got a sense of humor … (t)here have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult."

Brick by Brick is a 1990 album by Iggy Pop.

Brick by Brick may also refer to:

• "Brick by Brick" (Arctic Monkeys song), from their 2011 album Suck It and See
• "Brick by Brick" (Katy Perry song), from her 2009 live album MTV Unplugged
• "Brick by Brick" (Train song), from their 2009 album Save Me, San Francisco