My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish.… — Juanes Copy Share Image
I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not… — Avicii Copy Share Image
A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds… — Chino Moreno Copy Share Image
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
What it boils down to is that we look for a melody and we look for a lyric, and we look for… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Chance the Rapper: if you listen to his narrative and the subject matter he covers in his music, you can see that… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
I think I get really into comfort music: '60s stuff, '50s stuff like Frankie Avalon. I love it - such simple songs,… — Michael Benjamin Lerner Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that… — Yuna Copy Share Image
In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so… — Haley Reinhart Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very… — Diane Warren Copy Share Image
I'm a very melody-driven writer and I have a rule that I don't write anything down because if I can't remember the… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
I have never doubted the importance of melody. I like melody very much, and I consider it the most important element in… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to… — J. Robbins Copy Share Image
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again,… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
Pretty much any given day, barring some major distraction, I get melodies coming to me. Lyrics don't come quite as easily. So… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I love to write and have the basic foundation of what the song's all about. Then once the drums are done it's… — Kirk Windstein Copy Share Image
I'm a melody guy. To me, that's a musical souvenir people take from a movie. They remember a theme or a feeling,… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city.… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Usually now a song starts just in my head with a melody or a lyric idea coming first.Then typically I'll go to… — Eliot Lewis Copy Share Image
Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing… — Nicky Ryan Copy Share Image
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
Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
Luckily, like for instance the song "Suicide Dream 1," I wrote it out of such an incredibly powerful state that the melody… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
When people get up on the stage and say, "I've got AIDS," or "I'm in recovery," gosh, it's hard for them. It's… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art;… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
