Quotes About Music

The feeling that you want the listener to get, you should get yourself when you first hit that chord, and that melody comes to mind.

I'm totally up for experimental music. I'm up for music that they don't play on the radio, and I take in all of it. But my thing, the thing that comes most natural to me, is making the stuff that has a melody; it has a soul to it, yet it's head music.

I always liked melody.

I always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we're 90 per cent there.

I've wanted to do a Christmas song for years but thought every lyric and melody had been written.

I find it really easy to write on the bass, because you kind of get straight to the point: you do lyrics and melody without thinking about decorating the song until after you've finished it.

With Audioslave, it's all about melody and chord progressions.

I got really sick of playing just, like, 'Bop-bop-bop-bada-bop-bop-bada-rapa-pah.' Just playing that 190-beats-per-minute punk-rock songs, I didn't feel it anymore. And I always loved melody - when you looked back on those early records, there's always a hook buried in there somewhere.

Composing a melody or a western song is easier than composing a commercial number.

Basically, country is my kind of music - the simple melody, the simple lyrics.

Tchaikovsky was one of the great melody writers of all time.

We have been fortunate enough to travel a lot and we focus heavily on melody and that really is an international language.

I'll generally always get melody first and then I'll go in and try and think of a title and lyrics generally come last.

I love the sound of a Fender Rhodes or James Jamerson-style bass lines that are their own melody, and live drums and Moogs.

I don't know how to read music. You pick your guitar, you start playing chords and make up a melody that comes out of your head.

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

Well yes, I think melody is still my forte.

A lot of my writing is done on the road so I can take the music on my iPod, work out a melody then record it into Cubase.

I'm just a student. I'm learning all the time, and, like anyone, I'm just looking for words I can use and a hummable melody.

Within Klaxons, I never wrote the lyrics. I always wrote the melody and music with the other guys.

I think you can do a lot with lyrics and melody.

What it boils down to is that we look for a melody and we look for a lyric, and we look for an atmosphere and an emotion, and we try to concoct a song out of all of those ingredients.

I was an altar boy and a choir member.

On the street, people think I'm a guitar-carrying band member with a rock-n'-roll lifestyle, but the closest I have ever got to being one is probably lip-synching.