When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics. — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
If you're going to start with melody you'll need some tympani, I think. — Gene Krupa Copy Share Image
There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds. — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
My first experience with music was my father, he was a stereo buff and he built his own little Hi-Fi center with… — Ronnie Montrose Copy Share Image
I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
The melodies come out so strong that I'm like, "Oh, crap." It's really better if they could both be kind of able… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
“Truth, she believed, lies in what is said as much as in what isn't, in the same way that a melody not… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love.… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol… — Gregory Isaacs Copy Share Image
Lyrics are what I tend to tear hair out over and they're where I tend to feel weak musically, if I'm being… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. — Julianne Hough Copy Share Image
I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head. — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell. — Herb Alpert Copy Share Image
“what summits would I not reach if my own life made the subject of the melody.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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