Quotes About Melody

room of the shining sounds.

Soul music is timeless.

Music Is The Wine That Fills The Cup Of Silence...

The song Paul chose for this second session, 'Get on the Right Thing,' is built around McCartney's interesting use of a common-tone harmonic trick: the chords accompanying the song's verses all contain an E natural, but the melody McCartney sings against them steadily rises, creating a subtle tension harmonically, and between stasis and movement.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Et pourquoi le violoncelle ? - Parce que c'est l'instrument qui ressemble le plus à la voix humaine.

To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.

Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.

If I can sing along to it, it's pop music.

I don't like a lot of pop music. But I like the idea of pop music.

I was always into pop music, Destiny's Child, songs with catchy music. Even when I was writing when I was younger, it wasn't all about expressing myself; it was just about making fun music.

Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied.

The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.

I think there's a good pop song in pretty much anything.

I love a good, poppy chorus.

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

Good music acts a healer, it makes you positive.

Definitely one of the biggest influences on my music is the music that Ben Gibbard's associated with, so Death Cab and The Postal Service.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Music is a great catalyst for emotion because it gets to your core.

In sports, stats count. Music? Not so much.

If I'm writing songs for a country-Western picture, I have to know about country music.

Lyrically, country music is the most satisfying music for me.