I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I think I get really into comfort music: '60s stuff, '50s stuff like Frankie Avalon. I love it - such simple songs,… — Michael Benjamin Lerner Copy Share Image
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
The melody is French. But that's the end of the record. I named it "Jean Pierre Then There Were None," you know,… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I'm just a student. I'm learning all the time, and, like anyone, I'm just looking for words I can use and a… — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
When you are sitting in a room and somebody does something or says something and a thought comes, an idea or a… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we… — Nicolas Godin Copy Share Image
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The white music was melodic and pretty, and you had beautiful women's voices like Gogi Grant and even the Andrews Sisters. Then… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of… — Robben Ford Copy Share Image
It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not It just means that you're in sync with… — Harry Nilsson Copy Share Image
[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made… — Toni Morrison 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
“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics,… — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate… — Gary Cherone Copy Share Image
I really like the melody "Red Wine Is Good For My Heart" and people respond to it. I decided to put it… — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
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