Quotes About Melody

People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent of their childhood and of what their parents listened to.

'Varmathiye' is a song that can touch your hearts.

For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound.

My favorite Adele song is 'Hello.'

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

My favorite album is 'Abbey Road.' I love 'Hey Jude.'

I like all kinds of music, be it old Hindi movie songs or English classics.

it was a stirring tune, something between 'Clementine' and 'La Cucuracha'.

We try to make air-tight, intricate songs with melodies and counter-melodies and rhythms that work together, and we try to make it as palatable as possible - something that's not difficult to listen to.

Music teaches us how to work together, how to harmonize.

I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.

I listen to world music a lot.

I gravitate to rhythmic music, so I listen to jazz, world music, Indian music, Hawaiian music, all kinds.

Mainstream Bollywood music has fallen into some sort of a rut where melody, which was very important 'till the '90s, is out of favor.

Some people are great lyricists, but they're terrible at melody. But I could do melodies till the cows come home.

Good music is timeless, whether it's a country song, rock, or R&B.

The piano is such a timeless instrument.

Bacharach has such a brilliant ear for melody and his music has a completely timeless feel to it; I thought it would be great to do a whole album of his music and to record with a full orchestra and big band which is something I hadn't done before.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

We don't want to name our songs after the choruses, so we sometimes come up with random titles. We don't care if people don't know the names of the songs, we want them to play it and never get sick of it. We want it to be exciting, melodic, heavy and emotional. It can make you cry and laugh and be angry.

I'm a hip-hop kind of guy, but to be honest with you, I could listen to R&B all day. Give me some slow jams, and I'm a happy person.

It's the music that brings us together.

Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

The song of the years, the melody of life. Everything else - is not you, all others are strangers. And you yourself, who are you? You don't know. You'll get to know it later, when you string the beads of memory. You'll be what is most endearing, most cruel and most eternal.