Melodic Quotes
71 quotes by 70 authors
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I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
— Kevin Bacon
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Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if…
— Brandon Boyd
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I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
— Kurt Cobain
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I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads.…
— Aaliyah
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I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find what melodic line…
— Mose Allison
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Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.
— Karol Mikuli
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All of a sudden it hit me - If there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing…
— Len Lye
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George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an…
— Brian May
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My music has always been strong in melodic content.
— Chuck Mangione
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The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why I don't want…
— Gavin Bryars
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What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome…
— Stephen Dunn
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I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
— John Lescroart
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I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He…
— Wes Montgomery
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I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already…
— Charlie Byrd
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Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.
— Yngwie Malmsteen
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The sounds of anger are not melodic.
— John Lydon
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On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its artful simplicity. A…
— Rodney Crowell
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I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.
— Rick James
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I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those…
— Charles Mingus
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It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a…
— Artie Shaw
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