Quotes About Melody

On 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' I must insist that the sounds of the instrumentation are crucial to reflect what the movie should convey in terms of energy and emotion. It's not just the melody or the tune.

My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.

As a kid, on the cotton fields, I had this tune in my head. I hummed it and sang it. It was the same melody as 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' I could never, ever forget it.

'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.

I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.

I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

I can sing; I can hold a tune.

The show tune I can never get out of my head is 'Oh, What A Beautiful Morning' from 'Oklahoma!' I don't know why.

Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.

As long as a tune has the power to move me, I'm a lifelong fan.

Being out of tune sucks.

I can hold a tune but it's a bit ropey.

I don't know how to carry a tune.

Look, when a song becomes a hit, it happens because of its tune and melody, and not for the lyrics in the first place.

My work is music. That's why I could set to tune a song such as 'Kathirunnu Kathirunnu.'

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are sad, and the lyrics follow the mood of the melody.

This is the beauty of popular music, that it is based on simple and memorable tunes.

There are a million good tunes.

I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.

My grandmother had always played show tunes from classic musicals at the piano when we were growing up, so that helped me fall in love with Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Lerner and Loewe, etc.

I love melodic tunes and I think Kannada listeners have an ear for romantic songs.

Music is nostalgia. We often connect to a song, to its lyrics, its tunes so much that it feels like we have known those songs all along.

Chromamatic' is actually about changing the strings on my guitar and tuning my guitar.