Great Quote by James Newton Howard

I love a great melody and wonderful lyrics that speak from the heart, and my music has that and speaks about it; but there's…

— Kaskade

Melodies are very important in a song. Having a great melody and a great hook. That's what I would always come up with a…

— Jackie Jackson

I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very elitist with…

— Diane Warren

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

— Steven Tyler

The secret of a great melody is a secret.

— Dave Brubeck

Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies,…

— Slavoj Žižek

The trick with 'Nutcracker' was figure out how much, and where, we could the Tchaikovsky - using as much as we possibly could and…

— James Newton Howard

I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking…

— A. R. Rahman

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that…

— Art Garfunkel

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the…

— Dolly Parton

But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

— Reba McEntire

I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.

— Sufjan Stevens

For me, listening to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in particular, there's an emotional aspect - very different kinds of emotional aspects from those two composers,…

— Crispin Glover

They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great…

— Vladimir Putin

If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.

— Uzo Aduba