Quotes About Music

I've been able to carve my way out with lyrics and melodies.

It's never like, 'Now I'm going to sit down and write this or that kind of song.' The melodies may show up in the car, in the shower.

I really like melodies.

I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

Writing 'Blue Bird' gave me strength, courage, and power from my own words and melodies in a time when I needed it the most.

I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes.

I think country has the biggest melodies ever.

Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.

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.

Not playing guitar on 'World On Fire' gave me additional time to fine-tune lyrics and melodies, which improved the songs in the end. I'm very happy with how it turned out.

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.

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.