I think emotion is just anything that is emotional, you know, people can feel with music. Music is already so emotional, like… — Sam McCandless Copy Share Image
What I learned about music is that it can have nothing to do with words, instrumentation, image, message, or meaning. The meaning… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
“Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to… — Dave Haywood Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from… — Agnes Obel Copy Share Image
There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to… — Art Garfunkel Copy Share Image
I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
Often people poopoo melody as if it's a cheap trick to make people like things, but in my experience it's the hardest… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
I wish Melody fell for me but I hit rock bottom; fatality. Didn't have enough originality in my mentality. Times are getting… — Luke Garner Copy Share Image
It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and… — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies.… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
I try to keep my eyes and ears open all the time for the bones of my next song: things people say,… — Will Kimbrough Copy Share Image
When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to… — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I was in a hardcore band that had no melody, no chance of finding any success, and I was just trying to… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
My creative process isn't a long one, so I could have started a song 10 years ago and then finish it 10… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
I think the difference between a good song and a great song is... honestly, I think the lyrics, because if you have… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel,… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
“I’ve brought this city’s dust and smoke home and washed them with my face and clothes, I’ve picked up its raucous sounds… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in.… — Sia Copy Share Image
In nature everything is valuable, everything has its place. The rose, the daisy, the lark, the squirrel, each is different but beautiful.… — Diane Dreher Copy Share Image
Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25… — Lee Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I thought that if I practiced doing melodies for a year or so at home, I would learn to think melodically, and… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord;… — Daniel Cawdry Copy Share Image
Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any… — Plato Copy Share Image
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and… — Jack White Copy Share Image
People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Usually when I'm in the van or if there's downtime, I'll just mess around in Garage Band and work out melodies or… — Sarah Jaffe Copy Share Image
