Quotes About Music

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.

I think I have a sound or a certain feel in certain harmonies in the way I construct melodies.

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.

I try to use a lot of rap elements but my main thing is melodies.

What's the essence of the Go-Go's? Great melodies, guitar hooks, driving drums. All of that.

I write lyrics. putting words and melodies to my songs. That's a real challenge, I take it on vigorously.

The only way I'm not going to follow other people in reggaeton is if I listen to other things. I get other melodies or sounds and put them in reggaeton and make it different.

Absolutely, I'm living my dream. Yeah. My wife always jokes, says I'm a big kid, you know, playing in the studio and coming up with melodies and sounds. And, you know, I wouldn't know any other way because I just have music in my head all the time, and I just love it.

I usually like listening to music that only have melodies and no lyrics.

People always talk about the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, but I like his melodies. They are very defined and original.

I just love catchy melodies.

I like inventive melodies and chord changes, a little bit of creativity.

I try to find very simplistic melodies, which are the hardest ones to create.

I like good melodies and a great song.

You know, many people do not know that I am so immersed when it comes to music. I have such a huge knowledge of music. I like my songs, I like my melodies, my harmonies, you know.