Quotes About Melodies

As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.

I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.

I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.

What I can feel the most and what I can remember the most are the melodies I want to write to.

I feel like when I get into most rooms, melodies come really easily to me, and they sound good in my head. I never really know until I hear the song back and it's finished if it actually is good.

I've got so many melodies in my head.

I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most.

I'm definitely using different parts of myself, but I think when it comes down to words and melodies, I can't really force anything too much.

I've always been a writer who does simplistic, simple melodies. But I think it works.

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.

I have a lot of my mother in me, but I was just born with the same parts as my father. I don't sound like him. I mean, I can do an impression of him right now, and I do not sound like him. I sound like me. My sense of rhythm I learned from my mother. My melodies, I think sometimes, I get from my mother.

In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.

I think if you go to 'Strength of the World,' a song like that, the chorus isn't that great, but you go into the bridge and other things and the catchier parts and the better melodies we were really focused on.

We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not.

I'll only pick up my guitar if something is knocking on the door. Once the melodies have sort of been bothering me for a time, then I pick up my guitar and try to find them. But only if they want to be found.

When I was young and didn't know any English, I was drawn by the energy and power of foreign songs and their melodies.

I was three or four, and my mother would have a Bing Crosby record playing through the house. It was my introduction to jazz, harmonies, melodies, musicianship, and emotion.

There's the drums, the music, the melodies, the lyrics, the production, the artwork: there are so many elements to making an album, and the drumming is just a very small fraction of what I focus on.

I love amazing lyrics paired with amazing melodies.

The Beatles were a huge influence on me to write really good melodies.

Beyonce did an incredible job of differentiating the sound of Destiny's Child in her songs. When you hear Destiny's Child, you know it based on the harmonies and the melodies.

What do I call my music? Beats with melodies.

I kind of write in a very classic way. I sit in the piano, working on some catchy, cool melodies and coming up with song concepts for those melodies. I kind of write in a very traditional way '- how people have written since the early '40s.