I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted… — Jarryd James Copy Share Image
I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox… — Chino Moreno Copy Share Image
We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not. — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they… — Maluma Copy Share Image
Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I had conversations with friends about wanting to create something different. Every young musician probably thinks that. But… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I love writing pop songs and I love the challenge. I love melodies and wanted it to be classy. I wanted it… — Courtney Jaye Copy Share Image
Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
When I come up with a melody in my head, it could be anywhere: in the shower, on the plane, in bed… — Martin Garrix Copy Share Image
I usually sing a lot on my mixtapes. I sing a lot on songs that just really aren't singles. Even my first… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
“I am not one to compare long melodies as did Mozart. I can’t get beyond short themes. But what I can do,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If… — Michel Legrand Copy Share Image
Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
I don't really inject the rock 'n' roll thing, what I take from rock 'n' roll is probably the melodies and the… — Cedric Gervais Copy Share Image
It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . .… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
“There are melodies that speak as eloquently as words, that flow logically and inevitably from a single, pure emotion.” — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
I don't want to write melodies anymore. I can only write really simple, dumb caveman melodies. — Derek E. Miller Copy Share Image
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
I love countermelodies, I love hooks and melodies that stick in your head. If I could put 20 melodies in a song… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart. — Tom Wopat Copy Share Image
I really like melodies that have a certain tension against the chords. I like writing things that are sort of insistent. — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
Life is like a flute. It may have many holes and emptiness but if you work on it carefully, it can play… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's never like, 'Now I'm going to sit down and write this or that kind of song.' The melodies may show up… — Max Martin Copy Share Image
Every time I would think about my purpose, the answers seemed to come in sounds. In melodies. In feelings. — David Archuleta Copy Share Image
A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies. — Jim Coleman Copy Share Image
Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony — Lucy 'Aisy Copy Share Image
When I'm on a plane, I am the annoying person humming into my phone. Sitting there static with nothing to do, a… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound. — Mike Love Copy Share Image
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most. — Lou Barlow Copy Share Image
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
