Quotes About Melody

It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

I try to tell the truth in my lyrics; write good melodies and make hard beats. So, basically, I just combine hip-hop with melody. That's how I classify myself.

For 'Dynamite,' Max and Luke went to dinner and left me with a melody, and then I put it together.

If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material.

If you listen to the first, second, and third chorus of a song, they don't sound the same. It's the same melody and all that, but what really happens is that the energy changes. It's all about getting the listener to keep his or her concentration.

I usually write lyrics first, and then when I get home or close to any kind of instrument, I usually make a melody for those lyrics.

When I sing, it's different from when I speak in a very interesting way. I think that, when you're singing, a message is carried in a different way. I don't know if that emotion needs a melody.

As far as the music goes, I like melody.

You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric.

I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody.

Innovating something that is familiar. That's the general approach, and that's what I want to do with the melody as well. It should ring true - you should like every melody sequence without knowing what's happening next.

As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that's why I can play lots of instruments.

I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

I always try, when I'm singing songs, to interpret them the way that I would've arranged them. I think about the melody first, and then I pull out my guitar and start singing it.

I think my best songs come from me sitting at a piano, bashing my head against a brick wall for hours and hours on end to get one good melody.

What I like about Kasabian is that it's melody driven.

When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has to respect the melody.

I like music that not only has a pop melody to it but is also deeply about something.

When I'm writing with John Leventhal, the music that he's written mostly comes first. And I'll write the lyrics and the melody.

I like to always do my best to make music catchy, so I think a very catchy melody is cool.

My guitar-playing always included bass lines, melody lines, and rhythm-guitar grooves.

I record into my phone as soon as I hear a track. Melody comes first for me, and then my gibberish usually forms into lyrics and a concept from there.

I love to explore melody.

I'm totally up for experimental music. I'm up for music that they don't play on the radio, and I take in all of it. But my thing, the thing that comes most natural to me, is making the stuff that has a melody; it has a soul to it, yet it's head music.