Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun. — Bryan Greenberg 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
Rap, for me, I go at any tempo and any sound of beat and incorporate melody as well. — Santan Dave Copy Share Image
I know I have a very unusual style of playing, where other more recognized and technically proficient players might look at me… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi's apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
'Something More' is a song that I wrote not necessarily about country radio, more so about a lot of songs that were… — Scotty McCreery Copy Share Image
Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. — Manika Copy Share Image
I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
I was probably five years old or four years and I would listen to "White Christmas," and I just thought it was… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
I've tended to write lyrics alone. The emotion of the melody comes first. But what stimulates us are usually these dreamy minor… — Stella Mozgawa Copy Share Image
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language.… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
It is amazing when you try and write songs without an instrument. It kind of forces the melody to be honed it.… — Graham Colton Copy Share Image
I usually start with a guitar riff or some little pattern of chords, and then I kind of go from there. Usually… — Butterfly Boucher Copy Share Image
A lot of it starts with playing instruments and working with other people. Some of the new generation is doing it on… — Ray Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple… — George Jones Copy Share Image
When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off… — Verite Copy Share Image
