For 'Dynamite,' Max and Luke went to dinner and left me with a melody, and then I put it together. — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I've always liked string sections. I'm a sucker for melody, so it's fun to have strings add more layer of melody in… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When it comes to the 1990s songs, we all can recall them by their beautiful poetry, melody and how soothing they were… — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies. — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is… — Alison Krauss Copy Share Image
I kind of always thought that I had a good ear for melodies. I think in terms of melody. I can just… — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
I find I'm not one of these composers that are, you know, walking along a beach or walking on the mountainside in… — Enya Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist;… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
“A lark, caught in a hunter’s net Sang sweeter then than ever, As if the falling melody Might wing and net dissever… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I wrote 90 percent of the record in prison. A lot of people wonder, "How the hell did you do that?" I… — Ronnie Radke Copy Share Image
Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
On 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' I must insist that the sounds of the instrumentation are crucial to reflect what the movie should… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“It is the fire that consumes me; It is an inexplicable love, It is the rain that calms me; It is a… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
Akon is a very talented songwriter to work with. His melodies, they're just insane. It's funny, I think about him a lot… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I just find that with music I've always felt a sort of comfort."Paranoid Android" was the saddest song I'd ever heard in… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
The white music was melodic and pretty, and you had beautiful women's voices like Gogi Grant and even the Andrews Sisters. Then… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I am quite surprised and rather disappointed by the loneliness, isolation and indeed demonisation the sadly misunderstood CO2 is experiencing. Thus, upon… — Nick Minchin Copy Share Image
There is a little bit of a head vs. heart kind of battle that happens sometimes with the song. There's the goose… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies. — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition. — William Blake Copy Share Image
There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes. — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies,… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an… — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
A great song for me is when I hear it and it's contagious. The lyrics and the melody, if grows on you… — Easton Corbin Copy Share Image
“The limbo of life is like a song, a melody that comes around occasionally but that sticks in your head and never… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words… — Glenn Danzig Copy Share Image
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that… — Akon Copy Share Image
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
I really liked the Sex Pistols when they came out and I thought they had a lot of melody. — Kim Shattuck Copy Share Image
The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
