Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony — Lucy 'Aisy Copy Share Image
I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies. — Jim Coleman Copy Share Image
Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Everyone can write their melodies and chords and pianos and guitars, but what hasn't been discovered yet are tones and textures, and… — Flume Copy Share Image
When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
I usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in… — Leona Lewis Copy Share Image
Melodies and ideas are always on my mind and always coming to me. I'm very thankful for that because if I didn't… — John Debney Copy Share Image
When the Beatles hit in the early '60s, I think the objection was more to the hair than the music. The McCartney… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
I put in the sounds of instruments such as the guitar and piano, which everybody hears often, and tried to go with… — Seungri Copy Share Image
So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If… — Michel Legrand Copy Share Image
I don't really inject the rock 'n' roll thing, what I take from rock 'n' roll is probably the melodies and the… — Cedric Gervais Copy Share Image
It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . .… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
I love countermelodies, I love hooks and melodies that stick in your head. If I could put 20 melodies in a song… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
I don't want to write melodies anymore. I can only write really simple, dumb caveman melodies. — Derek E. Miller Copy Share Image
“There are melodies that speak as eloquently as words, that flow logically and inevitably from a single, pure emotion.” — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart. — Tom Wopat Copy Share Image
I really like melodies that have a certain tension against the chords. I like writing things that are sort of insistent. — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
Music is given of God to further his purposes. Sweet melodies mellow the souls of men and help prepare them for the… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I wake up in the middle of the night, I cant stop all the melodies that I hear melodies baby , I… — Kiara Copy Share Image
Jim had melodies as well as words. He didn't know how to play a chord on any instrument, but he had melodies… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
I couldn't sleep one night, and I didn't know what to do, so I came downstairs and started playing the piano. That's… — Benson Boone 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
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
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
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
I like the sounds of EDM; the guys create new sounds, beautiful sounds. The melodies, it's a little less. I like the… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
My lyrics are more country - what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
Pretty much any given day, barring some major distraction, I get melodies coming to me. Lyrics don't come quite as easily. So… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I do spend time trying to find good melodies, and I try to remember them when I do discover them. But also… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
I've always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country - what I love is the… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
