Quotes About Tunes

I think country has the biggest melodies ever.

What do I call my music? Beats with melodies.

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

I just love catchy melodies.

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

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

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

I'm doing super quality control. I'll have five tunes that I think are all good - before I would've put out all five tunes but now I'm just putting out that one out of the five that I think is the banger.

Babyshambles were offered some money to have a comeback. Good band, they were - amazing tunes.

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does.

When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.

I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.

When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.

The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

I really cherish the memories I have of my trips. For some reason, when you travel, it's like your mind picks up on the fact that this is something uncharacteristic, so it tunes in more acutely and remembers better.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship - that era's predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes and an all-star cast.