The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever.… — Manika Copy Share Image
Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish,… — Juanes Copy Share Image
When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas. Eventually, that… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Lyrics are important, but it's hard, because English isn't my first language - although it feels like it is these days! I… — Avicii Copy Share Image
I get asked all the time, "What is a George Strait song?" I know it when I hear it. I don't seek… — George Strait Copy Share Image
Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is… — Vance Gilbert Copy Share Image
'Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that,… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
A French friend brought over a load of Gainsbourg vinyl and I worked my way through it: by the time I got… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
My partner sometimes liked to go into the studio and improvise voice things just for fun. When I returned from England I… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson will live forever through the thing that he put all of his life energy into: his music. I will do… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
Music to me, still to this day, is this wide open landscape of potential sounds (and I have more words for it… — Josh Garrels Copy Share Image
Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her… — Frank Dempster Sherman Copy Share Image
If you're a poet and you're using rhyme, rhyme generates ideas. If you're a songwriter and you're using melody and words together,… — Momus Copy Share Image
I try to write lyrics that will be able to function on their own if they get separated from the music. But… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great… — Adam Lambert Copy Share Image
When I wrote a song, it would have to be from something I was really excited about, or a melody that's been… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
Wardruna is a combination of old and new. I use historical instruments and new and electronic instruments and tools. I use drones… — Einar Selvik Copy Share Image
I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to… — D.A. Wallach Copy Share Image
I love when rappers have a off-beat, very abstract timing, and he certainly did.And any rapper who really approaches rapping with the… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in… — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
As soon as 'Still D.R.E.' starts playing, you know what it is because of the melody. Most of the world's biggest records… — Scott Storch Copy Share Image
My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I'm quite limited as a player, so… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I'm trying to write. It's become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
Both Springsteen and Michael Jackson, who had these huge productions, could always scale them back down to just a song and a… — James Bay Copy Share Image
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