Quotes About Melody

I always liked melody.

I always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we're 90 per cent there.

I've wanted to do a Christmas song for years but thought every lyric and melody had been written.

I find it really easy to write on the bass, because you kind of get straight to the point: you do lyrics and melody without thinking about decorating the song until after you've finished it.

With Audioslave, it's all about melody and chord progressions.

I got really sick of playing just, like, 'Bop-bop-bop-bada-bop-bop-bada-rapa-pah.' Just playing that 190-beats-per-minute punk-rock songs, I didn't feel it anymore. And I always loved melody - when you looked back on those early records, there's always a hook buried in there somewhere.

Basically, country is my kind of music - the simple melody, the simple lyrics.

Tchaikovsky was one of the great melody writers of all time.

We have been fortunate enough to travel a lot and we focus heavily on melody and that really is an international language.

I'll generally always get melody first and then I'll go in and try and think of a title and lyrics generally come last.

I love the sound of a Fender Rhodes or James Jamerson-style bass lines that are their own melody, and live drums and Moogs.

I don't know how to read music. You pick your guitar, you start playing chords and make up a melody that comes out of your head.

The focus is on melody: If you get it right, and it connects to the mass audience, it doesn't matter if it's a studio album or played on the dance floor.

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

Well yes, I think melody is still my forte.

A lot of my writing is done on the road so I can take the music on my iPod, work out a melody then record it into Cubase.

I'm just a student. I'm learning all the time, and, like anyone, I'm just looking for words I can use and a hummable melody.

Within Klaxons, I never wrote the lyrics. I always wrote the melody and music with the other guys.

I think you can do a lot with lyrics and melody.

What it boils down to is that we look for a melody and we look for a lyric, and we look for an atmosphere and an emotion, and we try to concoct a song out of all of those ingredients.

My favorite song is Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' because my brother used to sing it to me as loud as he could. Annoying then, favorite memory now.

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

One of my favorite albums that I've been listening to lately is 'Midnight Machines' by Lights.