I approach song writing three different ways. One way is where I write the initial melody and lyrics first and then take… — Manika Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out… — Carole King Copy Share Image
We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening.… — Enya Copy Share Image
I love melody, and that's what I love about pop music. The words can become what they are through a special melody.… — Anna Ternheim Copy Share Image
My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my… — Ella Leya Copy Share Image
No offence to Hugh MacLennan, but you don't even have to know or understand any deep philosophy that's being espoused, you can… — Sarah Harmer Copy Share Image
The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle.… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
All songs have those X factors. I couldn't even explain or describe what will grab me about them but it's all music… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
Well, the first thing I do is I try to listen to whatever rapping is already on the track. I listen for… — Bun B Copy Share Image
I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached… — King Krule Copy Share Image
And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Only having one melody instrument in play at a time meant that we could improvise more in our practices. — Liv Bruce Copy Share Image
Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody. — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
The Song of Love, the Song of Hate, the Songs of Praise and of Thanksgiving; I've learned them all, but there remains… — Ridgely Torrence Copy Share Image
As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say.… — Leon Bridges Copy Share Image
“The limbo of life is like a song, a melody that comes around occasionally but that sticks in your head and never… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
“Not every silence breaks beautifully, like a delicate melody. There are those silences shattering into countless pieces, each shard a fragment of… — Shahid Hussain Raja Copy Share Image
I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs. — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more… — John Keats 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
