Quotes About Melody

Music is really, really mathematical.

The meaning of the words in my songs are very important to me. But what's most important to me is that the music works.

Music is the only medium by which everyone is connected in the world.

My favorite song is 'Cybele's Reverie' by Stereolab.

I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

I can't hear rhythm.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.'

Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.

My mother was the only musician. She played piano and she sang. She also played saxophone. And she played at home a lot.

Raaz 3' has a human touch and in fact, horror comes in third place. The first is human touch, while music takes the second place.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

People would call me up because they liked my voice, and they wanted some kind of vocal harmony. Sometimes I was asked to come in and sing all the harmony parts, and sometimes I would sing with other people.

It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.

All songwriters are known as 'topliners' because the vocal goes on top of the track.

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

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.

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.