Beat Quote by Santan Dave

I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.

— Tom Araya

At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick up the…

— Nneka

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

— Tiffany Foxx

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the…

— George Clinton

With Rage, we wrote riff rock and had rap vocals, so we didn't really concern ourselves with melody for the most part.

— Tim Commerford

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

— Drake

All I really want is a beat from Kanye West. I've met him, and I think he's real cool with us. If I get…

— Domo Genesis

I can't freestyle or else I'll just start saying anything, so I'll write the song first and then record. I'll rap to the producer…

— Tee Grizzley

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it…

— Al Stewart

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

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains…

— James A. Garfield

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

The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical…

— Richard Baxter

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