Quotes About Melody

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

The clarinet is not so dominant in Israeli music as it is in klezmer. I heard klezmer when I was growing up, but for some reason I avoided it. I listened to Louis Armstrong instead. But the sense of melody is the connection between jazz and klezmer.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.

I love 'Shadow' the most! The melody is awesome, and I really like how the lyrics express genuine emotions.

'Is Qadar' is a beautiful melody that will resonate with people.

I enjoy and understand melody before I create it. But the challenge is that I've also got to satisfy the film going audience of today.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!

I just remember really loving words and writing about anything I could, and the way I'd remember things, like my library card number, was to make a melody.

I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.

The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick up the guitar to develop the song. Other times I just write without any melodies, and I end up using those lyrics when I think I have the appropriate instrumental that would bring out and depict the emotions of what I have written.

You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line.

God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.

If I can sit down at my keyboard and have a melody that says something that I can't with words, that's a really beautiful thing.

I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only.

I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.