I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k…

— Freddie Mercury

Jim had melodies as well as words. He didn't know how to play a chord on any instrument, but he had melodies in his…

— John Densmore

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

— Jennette McCurdy

Alan Menken is so gifted in terms of coming up with these great melodies. What I learned from working with him was how to…

— Stephen Schwartz

The only criticism heard with any frequency of Elton John's first American album, 'Elton John,' was that the production was too grandiose. The melodies…

— Jon Landau

At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick up the…

— Nneka

“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combination of these five give rise to more melodies that can ever be heard.”

— Sun Tzu

There are no rules or certain methods. I usually start with the guitar or piano and sing melodies over the chords. The lyrics seem…

— Jason Reeves

“There are melodies that speak as eloquently as words, that flow logically and inevitably from a single, pure emotion.”

— Rachel Hartman

Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in…

— Juanes

It was a matter of not seeing the woods for the trees. Glorious songs have been in Ireland forever, but a lot of these…

— Phil Coulter

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

— Michel Legrand

You don't have to know anything about music to understand what I write. Mine are simple melodies.

— Harry Warren

“If we are exhorted to play simple melodies with beauty rather than difficult ones with error, the same should be applied to writing; simple…

— Sonia Rumzi

So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords…

— Midge Ure