I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very… — Diane Warren Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know. — Keren Woodward Copy Share Image
Melody is pure intuition. I don't use any thinking brain when I do that. That's totally in the zone. — Sia Copy Share Image
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. — Gary Cherone Copy Share Image
When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
I have a notebook that I take with me everywhere. I free-write in it when there are situations that I know I… — Agent M Copy Share Image
You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent… — Irving Berlin Copy Share Image
I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord. — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
When I wrote a song, it would have to be from something I was really excited about, or a melody that's been… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
I don't have some songwriting formula that I kinda go by. Usually it just comes by way of inspiration. Sometimes I'm inspired… — Natalie Grant Copy Share Image
I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to… — Julianne Hough Copy Share Image
Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There are a lot of unspoken things with me and Nimai [Larson]. We're very yin and yang, neither one of us really… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your… — Rajneesh 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
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
