Melody Quote by Jasinda Wilder

It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean…

— Zooey Deschanel

You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent is only…

— Irving Berlin

I have a notebook that I take with me everywhere. I free-write in it when there are situations that I know I can write…

— Agent M

Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually…

— Jack Johnson

“I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell…

— Kiera Cass

Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van…

— Conor Oberst

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

— Drake

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I…

— M. Ward

I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried and tried,…

— Brian Wilson

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

— Geddy Lee

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

— Washington Irving