Bees Quote by Tom Waits

As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way…

— David Sanborn

I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the…

— Tom Waits

Every once in a while, we can touch somebody's life in a way just by writing a melody or writing some music, which is…

— M. Shadows

I think if you enjoy writing lyrics, sometimes melody is something that kind of hinders your flow, so sometimes writing without melody and just…

— Ellie Rowsell

Melody was banned from music by the composers of the avant-garde. I was unique among them in always using and writing melody and so…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

— Enya

Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view. All they…

— Benny Goodman

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments…

— Adrian Grenier

I felt I had nothing more to say. Everything would have had to be a replay of the previous two or three albums, and…

— Richard Pinhas

A violin is nothing more than a piece of wood and a dead cat. But it's a piece of technology. So when computers came…

— Hans Zimmer

The best way for me to teach myself an instrument is to just jam on it, and sound awful sometimes, and sound great other…

— Josh Groban

An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all nature, really.

— Patrick Wolf