I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The melodies are always the most important part to me. I am pulled more to the groove than the chord progression. After… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Traveling to Europe and traveling in the U.S.A. was a much different experience. 'On the Road' exemplified everything glamorous that was happening… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I miss the romance. I keep saying this over and over again, but dance follows music. And if the accent today is… — Gene Kelly 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
Sometimes melody and sometimes lyrics. It depends on the tempo and feel of the song. Slower pieces usually begin with melody and… — Ronnie James Dio Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the… — Darius Milhaud 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
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. A lot of… — George Jones Copy Share Image
The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
My plea therefore is this: Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with… — Spencer W. Kimball 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
The melody of a religious feeling is the music of life itself. To those who do not hear it I could not… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
“Pure and soft, the melody is entrancing. Haunting. I’m glued to my seat, waiting, hoping for the next enthralling sound. I’d close… — Cassie Graham Copy Share Image
My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Melodies are far more interesting. They are there, in your face, in certain sections of the songs. People do complain about the… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole… — Desmond Dekker Copy Share Image
My favorite moments are when the bass falls in the pocket with the drums, the guitar is on top just slicing it,… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
My first experience with music was my father, he was a stereo buff and he built his own little Hi-Fi center with… — Ronnie Montrose Copy Share Image
I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
The melodies come out so strong that I'm like, "Oh, crap." It's really better if they could both be kind of able… — Andrew Bird 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 think that a great song needs the full package. I think that a great song needs everything from lyrics, to melody,… — William Beckett 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
Yes, when I come up with ideas on my own, it's almost always a melody, just as often an instrument or bassline… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between the Arabic and Western scales. One uses quarter tone system and one doesn't. So in order for… — Ayshay 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
Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock… — Robert Pollard Copy Share Image
For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's… — Gladys Knight Copy Share Image
“Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
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