What I learned about music is that it can have nothing to do with words, instrumentation, image, message, or meaning. The meaning… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
I think emotion is just anything that is emotional, you know, people can feel with music. Music is already so emotional, like… — Sam McCandless 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
There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art;… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
When people get up on the stage and say, "I've got AIDS," or "I'm in recovery," gosh, it's hard for them. It's… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
Luckily, like for instance the song "Suicide Dream 1," I wrote it out of such an incredibly powerful state that the melody… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
I wish Melody fell for me but I hit rock bottom; fatality. Didn't have enough originality in my mentality. Times are getting… — Luke Garner Copy Share Image
The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and… — Mireille Guiliano 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
When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I try to keep my eyes and ears open all the time for the bones of my next song: things people say,… — Will Kimbrough Copy Share Image
Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies.… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Often people poopoo melody as if it's a cheap trick to make people like things, but in my experience it's the hardest… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to… — Art Garfunkel Copy Share Image
I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to… — Dave Haywood Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from… — Agnes Obel Copy Share Image
I think I get really into comfort music: '60s stuff, '50s stuff like Frankie Avalon. I love it - such simple songs,… — Michael Benjamin Lerner Copy Share Image
The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that… — Yuna Copy Share Image
In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
What it boils down to is that we look for a melody and we look for a lyric, and we look for… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
Chance the Rapper: if you listen to his narrative and the subject matter he covers in his music, you can see that… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds… — Chino Moreno Copy Share Image
I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not… — Avicii Copy Share Image
Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish.… — Juanes Copy Share Image
When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing… — Nicky Ryan Copy Share Image
