Quotes About Melody

When you listen to music, you can tell if it's a real love song or not.

The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.

I like music that just gives you goose bumps.

I make catchy, easy music which the public can grasp easily.

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.

Shaft' is a great country song.

I just love a great groove.

You have to grow with the music.

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

Music has the power to make one forget everything save those sounds that touch your heart.

When I first came to London I thought there'd be this amazing music scene, but I was quite let down by how little was going on and how few ideas there were in music. Bands were writing songs that had no melody, and I wondered, why is that, melody is the most important thing in a song. It's the thing that sticks in your head.

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

The songs in 'Wonderland' don't have a melodic life for me - I'm not a musical person - but they have an emotional life, an emotional echo perhaps.

If you break down most rock songs and look at the lyrics on a piece of paper, it's all about melody. It's all about presentation. And a lot of bands are really great, but you can't understand a word of what they say.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

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.

I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.

You can't under-estimate the power of uplifting melody and words.

Sometimes a couple notes are worth a thousand words.

There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call 'mela' or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting by the ocean.

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

I collect words--they are sweets in the mouth of sound.