Certain Quote by John Legend

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

— Jack Black

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or…

— Enya

I think there's just certain lyrics and certain forms of hip-hop that definitely rang true, again, to a lot of people's truth, but you…

— Solange Knowles

I'm not the kind of guy who walks around with a notebook writing lyrics. For me, melody and song structure come first and foremost.…

— Cary Brothers

I do have a way of playing piano where it's very melodic and emotional, but then often it's great if whoever's singing doesn't sing…

— Aaron Dessner

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

— Oscar Peterson

In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part…

— Beck

I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only appeal to…

— Jeff Tweedy

All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try…

— Gloria Estefan

Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a…

— Bela Bartok

Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all…

— Valerie Simpson

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!

— Elton John