Quotes About Music

Jim had melodies as well as words. He didn't know how to play a chord on any instrument, but he had melodies in his head. To remember the lyrics he would think of melodies and then they would stay in his head. He had melodies and lyrics in his head, and he would sing them a cappella, and we would eke out the arrangements.

I was always going out to joints in Jersey that played country music. I was always around it. I liked the lyrics, the simple melodies, the soulful-ness.

I've always got these little melodies running around in my head, although most of them aren't worth much, and I understand structure and formulas.

At an early age, I understood music... the rhyme schemes, melodies and harmonies.

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

Here's the thing: My hobby is to DJ. I just love music, so I can hear the beginning of a beat, the beginning of a melody, and think of the words, think of the name of the song, think of the hook, and just go there.

I always begin to compose the melody first.

In 'Kill Rock n' Roll,' the choruses came about at the moment I was listening to a lot of the Supremes, and if you listen to that part, you can hear a melody and a harmony there that's not too far away from what the Supremes would probably be doing, but there's heavy guitars in the back.

When I listen to songs, to this day, I listen to the chords and the groove and the melody.

A lot of people love men that rock; I love men that love a good melody and a good harmony.

That's pretty much how every song of mine works - I start with gibberish and melody and phrasing. I speak it naturally first. And then I think about lyrics that fit into that.

I would love to write a song that's exciting, bright, and has a fresh melody and lyrics.

I kind of always thought that I had a good ear for melodies. I think in terms of melody. I can just be walking and I'll hear a melody.

I love melody more than any other part of music.

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

I'm all about the melody.

I get mad about something, and then I have this melody in my head, and then afterwards, the lyrics come.

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

I started writing songs before I could talk - at three or four. It was in me, and I had to get it out. It was all freestyle, which is how I write anyway. I don't write the words down; I scat and come up with the melody, then the lyrics.

The clarinet is not so dominant in Israeli music as it is in klezmer. I heard klezmer when I was growing up, but for some reason I avoided it. I listened to Louis Armstrong instead. But the sense of melody is the connection between jazz and klezmer.

Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.