Melody Quotes - page 3

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody. (Dennis Brown)
What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something. View quote
Diane Warren
The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form. View quote
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
With a good melody... music gets me through everything. View quote
Drake Bell
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story. View quote
Glenn Danzig
By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight. View quote
Glenn Miller
For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian. View quote
Herbie Mann
'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark. View quote
Jake Epstein
I always begin to compose the melody first. View quote
Nobuo Uematsu
There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it. View quote
Nuno Bettencourt
The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential. (Ray Stevens)
One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't. View quote
Shawn Colvin
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune. View quote
Sonny Rollins
After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure. View quote
Stanley Clarke
There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state. View quote
Stephan Jenkins
Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain. View quote
Steven Bochco
I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming. View quote
Tom Araya
I really love writing themes and melody. View quote
Trevor Rabin
I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano. View quote
Teena Marie
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns. View quote
Terry Riley
The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody. (Utada Hikaru)
There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs. View quote
Wayne Coyne
l'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used all the time at the time, and I kept thinking there's bound to be something else. I could hear it sometimes but I couldn't play it. ... I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive. View quote
Charlie Parker
Each jazz musician when he takes a horn in his hand - trumpet, bass, saxophone, drums - whatever instrument he plays - each soloist, that is, when he begins to ad lib on a given composition with a title and improvise a new creative melody, this man is taking the place of a composer. View quote
Charles Mingus
I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it. View quote
Britney Spears