Quotes About Melody

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.

You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work, it becomes very exciting. The melody is a great part of it.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

For a long time, I have loved Coldplay and I have always enjoyed listening to their music.

Something about cactuses and rock music is a good combination.

Comedy is music.

Music has the ability to comfort people.

The sound of the piano is always something that is a real kind of comfort food to me.

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

I always compose on the harmonium.

I have composed music for many city-based movies.

Puccini is my favorite composer.

My favourite composers are Vishal Shekhar, AR Rahman, Shankar Ehsaan-Loy.

Music is the medium. Words merely enhance the composition.

Lyrics is the face of any song. The combination of composition, lyrics and singing is what makes a song a song.

Music, to me, is something that connects to the soul.

The Swedish style of songwriting is so mathematical.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

Gujarati is a very sweet language and I have always used elements from Gujarati songs in my music.

Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.

You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp.

Swing is my favorite kind of music.

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.