If I was writing a song one night, I would leave the studio and come back the next day, and if I… — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
I'm a dude who likes to create music with good feeling. I live like a chameleon through music. It all depends on… — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and… — Stanley Clarke Copy Share Image
The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first… — Mikal Cronin Copy Share Image
There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
There are no rules or certain methods. I usually start with the guitar or piano and sing melodies over the chords. The… — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
I am not dogging on non-melodic pop music because I love it, but I am saying that is why the timeless songs… — Julianne Hough Copy Share Image
My whole career was launched in such sort of poptastic style with 'Kids In America', and I liked - and like -… — Kim Wilde Copy Share Image
It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . .… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a… — Zach Condon 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
When you do a remix, obviously you get a beautiful melody, you get the beautiful vocals - everything is already set up.… — Cedric Gervais Copy Share Image
Animals can always read your vibration, and if you are intent on empowering your life, they will often gift you by making… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
“The song of the years, the melody of life. Everything else - is not you, all others are strangers. And you yourself,… — Sasha Sokolov Copy Share Image
In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
I was really influenced by a lot of Disney soundtracks, because that's what I used to watch all the time, and they… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Melody's like tweezers that go into the infection and pull out the wounded part. You can almost not stay silent in the… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
My school life was very much a wandering experience. I was having trouble in school and I was not making a lot… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
When I first came to London I thought there'd be this amazing music scene, but I was quite let down by how… — James Righton Copy Share Image
Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues,… — Etta James Copy Share Image
Most people don't take some things into consideration. When they hear an album, they hear the artist or they hear the lyric… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I used to play the piano, I was pretty decent, so that was the only thing I could hold onto in terms… — Lunice Copy Share Image
I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Now they are a circle, and they vibrate together, they pulsate together. Their hearts are no longer separate, their beats are no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Preparing to improvise is at a level commensurate with mastering the structure in a European classical piece. Another way to define improvisation… — Jimmy Heath Copy Share Image
Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Things inspiring me - good melody, a great bass line, a fabulous voice... by which I mean someone who sounds great, rather… — Al Murray 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
Rachael Sage is a marvelous young artist- and I am a fan!! 'Haunted by You' has a beauty that shines through her… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
Oh all the times I've listened, and all the times I've heard All the melodies I'm missing, and all the magic words,… — Harry Chapin 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
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
![“I used to play the piano, I was pretty decent, so that was the only thing I could hold onto in terms of coming up with melodies; but at the time I [still] just couldn't, so my early beats were really sample-based.” quote by Lunice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00b/lunice-86762_beats_i-used-to-play-the-piano-i-was-pretty-de_1315813.jpg)
![“[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it could mean and whether this could be the ancestor song. So, I started writing English lyrics to sort of the same melody.” quote by Lin-Manuel Miranda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5db/lin-manuel-miranda-2352_ancestor_opetaia-foa-i-brought-in-the-melody-and_2061405.png)
