...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of… — Robben Ford Copy Share Image
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I sat down at the piano and my hands began to browse over the keys. Thensomething happened. I felt as though I… — Thomas A. Dorsey Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Roger Waters isn't a "great" singer but he's always able to communicate this intense desperation. At times he's not even singing, but… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
It was very challenging, trying to add an orchestra on top of these traditional African rhythms, because as soon as you add… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful.… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
No matter what I'm writing, I almost always start with the music. Definitely, the melody seems to set the tone for whatever… — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
If I was writing a song one night, I would leave the studio and come back the next day, and if I… — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
“…and I smile and know why people write music and paint and dance, lifted as if they can fly, because this ache… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
I love melody, and that's what I love about pop music. The words can become what they are through a special melody.… — Anna Ternheim Copy Share Image
The melodies were melodies that anybody could sing or hum or whistle. And the words were just about that simple. I think… — Don Helms Copy Share Image
It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or… — Bono Copy Share Image
No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Melody's like tweezers that go into the infection and pull out the wounded part. You can almost not stay silent in the… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
My school life was very much a wandering experience. I was having trouble in school and I was not making a lot… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
Animals can always read your vibration, and if you are intent on empowering your life, they will often gift you by making… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
I was really influenced by a lot of Disney soundtracks, because that's what I used to watch all the time, and they… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
“The song of the years, the melody of life. Everything else - is not you, all others are strangers. And you yourself,… — Sasha Sokolov Copy Share Image
There are no rules or certain methods. I usually start with the guitar or piano and sing melodies over the chords. The… — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
I am not dogging on non-melodic pop music because I love it, but I am saying that is why the timeless songs… — Julianne Hough Copy Share Image
For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God… — Michelangelo 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
My whole career was launched in such sort of poptastic style with 'Kids In America', and I liked - and like -… — Kim Wilde Copy Share Image
When you do a remix, obviously you get a beautiful melody, you get the beautiful vocals - everything is already set up.… — Cedric Gervais Copy Share Image
We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
I'm a dude who likes to create music with good feeling. I live like a chameleon through music. It all depends on… — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and… — Stanley Clarke Copy Share Image
The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first… — Mikal Cronin Copy Share Image
There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
![“[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it could mean and whether this could be the ancestor song. So, I started writing English lyrics to sort of the same melody.” quote by Lin-Manuel Miranda](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5db/lin-manuel-miranda-2352_ancestor_opetaia-foa-i-brought-in-the-melody-and_2061405.png)
