Acquire Quote by Darius Milhaud

There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are…

— Ken Hensley

Composing music is hard work.

— John Williams

Sometimes the simplest forms of music are the hardest to play. Especially for musicians that are accomplished.

— J. J. Cale

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

— Richard Wagner

Even if I have a quite strong melody, there are so many possibilities and so many directions that you can take the music.

— Trentemøller

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write…

— Sheryl Crow

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a…

— Joseph Haydn

“The simplest melodies are the hardest to play”

— Gary Goldschneider

I try to find very simplistic melodies, which are the hardest ones to create.

— Jonas Blue

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

— Jack Garratt

I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.

— Roger Sessions

It is easy to write unthinking music.

— George Crumb