It's his name I keep on singing with an unknown melody…

I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention…

— George Strait

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I…

— M. Ward

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

There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like,…

— Black Francis

“I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell…

— Kiera Cass

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van…

— Conor Oberst

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

— Drake

I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried and tried,…

— Brian Wilson

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

— Geddy Lee

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

— Washington Irving

As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did — and…

— Joan Jett

She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in…

— Laura Joplin

“Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. (Averill often told herself…

— Alice Munro

I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson