Learning Quote by Gord Downie

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

— Aaron Copland

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

— Tom T. Hall

What do I call my music? Beats with melodies.

— Jon Hopkins

Melodies that get stuck up in your head.

— Sugarland

Yes, when I come up with ideas on my own, it's almost always a melody, just as often an instrument or bassline as it…

— Caroline Polachek

If there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in…

— Lauren Mayberry

Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming…

— Yelawolf

I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.

— Yuna

When I'm coming up with melodies, it feels like I'm in this other meditative state you can't describe.

— Sophie Thatcher

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

— Anonymous

With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me.

— John Maus

Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of…

— Zach Condon