Cleverness Quote by Keith Jarrett

We're falling into a place where melody is somewhat lacking in music. Everybody feels like, okay, too much melody or too much harmony, and…

— Ne-Yo

“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that…

— Louisa May Alcott

There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of…

— Pat Metheny

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's…

— Frederic Chopin

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

— Toru Takemitsu

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.

— Bradley Joseph

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

— Harold Prince

It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a…

— Christian Scott

Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious.…

— Rudy Vallee

Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may…

— John Blacking

Melody is the essence of music.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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