Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible. — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies. — Flume Copy Share Image
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Cornelius Cardew's folk songs were very, very literal, and they were just about workers smashing their chains. It was like reading Das… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never… — John Clare Copy Share Image
For me I look at a group like Queen or AC/DC or the Beastie Boys. There was melody within what they did.… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
I'm a very melody-driven writer and I have a rule that I don't write anything down because if I can't remember the… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
Without you hearing a melody or music or anything like that, it would say something to you. So, that's what a song… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
When I see a movie, the music often gets in the way for me. It's something that, say, for myself and Claire,… — Stuart A. Staples Copy Share Image
The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think I was annoyed going through the '90s just as a guy who loves music. There wasn't a lot of music… — Michael Buble 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 did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words. — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip… — Liberace Copy Share Image
Well I mean I just sit at the piano and maybe figure out some harmony or melody or both. Sometimes you can… — Roy Hargrove Copy Share Image
People in the West want to hear Indian melody, not someone who is aping the West. — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
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