Quotes About Melody

Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score.

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

I grew up listening to Hindi and Marathi songs of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosale.

Hindi film songs lack poetry, and even musically, they aren't appealing at times. Their lyrical qualities aren't strong. I sometimes feel that singers aren't singing, but shouting out loud. Where's the melody?

Songs are easy to remember because they have rhythm and music.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.

I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

It's such a weird process, songwriting, because you just have to feel it. There's no right or wrong melody or lyric.

Around me, there's always music playing. It just calms me down; it soothes me. It helps me write. It helps me with my mood.

I like music to soothe me.

When it comes to the 1990s songs, we all can recall them by their beautiful poetry, melody and how soothing they were to the soul.

I love music - it's soothing and takes away from all the other stuff.

Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

Music is a language in itself and the songs have their own soul, every song has its soul.

A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.

And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.

If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need.

As a musician, language is almost like another instrument. Every word has a sound.

The song 'Gave It All Away' has a reggae sound.

I like 'love' songs, however cheesy that might sound.

When it comes to 'Maruvaarthai,' I have said many a time that Carnatic music drives my creative influence. In that sense, Darbuka Siva gave me a lot of room to breathe with the melody. The instrumental, however, was grounded. The lyrics is just poetic, and phonetically, they sound beautiful.

Music is what feelings sound like, and to sing a meaningfully melodious composition like 'Suno apne dil ki' is a rarity.