Melody Quote by Tim Commerford

We wrote many a Rage song where we'd use Soundgarden as a template.

— Tim Commerford

The sounds of anger are not melodic.

— John Lydon

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

— John Otto

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

— Al Yankovic

Every riff had to be perfect and heavy, collectively what we wanted it to be. If there was one person in the room who…

— Johnny Christ

I am not a rock producer. I don't see that. I once turned down Guns N' Roses. I don't like shouting. I'm a melody…

— Steve Lillywhite

There was a time when melody was the most important feature in any song. But with time, music underwent a major transition.

— Kumar Sanu

Melody is the essence of music.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide…

— Dave Barry

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

— Adam Rich

It was really different this time, because we did everything in the studio and thought out the writing and song structures. Before this album…

— Mitch Lucker

We loved that form of music. We're all huge rap fans, so we just incorporated it.

— Charlie Benante