Bars Quote by Danny Elfman

I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas,…

— Danny Elfman

I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple,…

— Washed Out

As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way…

— David Sanborn

If the chords change a lot over the course of a song, it's better to stay within the same melodic structure.

— Max Martin

I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even…

— Pat Metheny

There's four chords in every song. That's the fun part - trying to make that your own.

— Olivia Rodrigo

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song.…

— Junior Kimbrough

The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first and then…

— Mikal Cronin

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song,…

— Jeff Lynne

The melodies are always the most important part to me. I am pulled more to the groove than the chord progression. After you find…

— Dave Matthews

The feeling that you want the listener to get, you should get yourself when you first hit that chord, and that melody comes to…

— Matt Skiba

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

— Aaron Copland