Usually now a song starts just in my head with a melody or a lyric idea coming first.Then typically I'll go to… — Eliot Lewis Copy Share Image
I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again,… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
I love to write and have the basic foundation of what the song's all about. Then once the drums are done it's… — Kirk Windstein Copy Share Image
Pretty much any given day, barring some major distraction, I get melodies coming to me. Lyrics don't come quite as easily. So… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city.… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
I'm a melody guy. To me, that's a musical souvenir people take from a movie. They remember a theme or a feeling,… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to… — J. Robbins Copy Share Image
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so… — Haley Reinhart Copy Share Image
I'm a very melody-driven writer and I have a rule that I don't write anything down because if I can't remember the… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
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
I have never doubted the importance of melody. I like melody very much, and I consider it the most important element in… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great… — Adam Lambert 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
Wardruna is a combination of old and new. I use historical instruments and new and electronic instruments and tools. I use drones… — Einar Selvik Copy Share Image
I love when rappers have a off-beat, very abstract timing, and he certainly did.And any rapper who really approaches rapping with the… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to… — D.A. Wallach Copy Share Image
If you're a poet and you're using rhyme, rhyme generates ideas. If you're a songwriter and you're using melody and words together,… — Momus Copy Share Image
Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her… — Frank Dempster Sherman Copy Share Image
The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I try to write lyrics that will be able to function on their own if they get separated from the music. But… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
'Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that,… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
My partner sometimes liked to go into the studio and improvise voice things just for fun. When I returned from England I… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
A French friend brought over a load of Gainsbourg vinyl and I worked my way through it: by the time I got… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson will live forever through the thing that he put all of his life energy into: his music. I will do… — Ne-Yo 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
There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is… — Vance Gilbert Copy Share Image
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