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You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.
I'm glad I've been offered songs from various genres, but I love singing melodies the most.
But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.
What's the essence of the Go-Go's? Great melodies, guitar hooks, driving drums. All of that.
What I can feel the most and what I can remember the most are the melodies I want to write to.
I think I have a sound or a certain feel in certain harmonies in the way I construct melodies.
I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.
Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the USA' kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out-of-control beautiful.
I'm pretty good at delivering my songs, but I just want to perfect the craft by creating melodies.
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most.
I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.
Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.
I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
Ever since I can remember, I hated silence. I wanted it filled with guitars and melodies to sing all day.
I write lyrics. putting words and melodies to my songs. That's a real challenge, I take it on vigorously.
Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
First of all, The Go-Go's have always had pop melodies, OK? And the punk aspect was just at the root of it.
Drake is a lyrical genius, and he's great with melodies, and Pharrell is an amazing producer and songwriter.
With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.
John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.
I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.
When I hear 'fusion,' I think of Tricky-Dick stuff - really hairy melodies played in unison. It's like, 'Why?'
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
I listen to what people say in the songs, not just the melodies. With rappers you gotta listen to what they say.
People always talk about the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, but I like his melodies. They are very defined and original.
I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.
I didn't really know a lot about music when I started out, but now I've learned how to write music or make melodies.
Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.
I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.
When I was young and didn't know any English, I was drawn by the energy and power of foreign songs and their melodies.
Whether it's my words, my melodies, or the production, I wanted it all to bring something out of whoever was listening.
I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.
Country songs are theatrical songs, they tell stories, and wear the hearts on their sleeves and they have great melodies.
I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.
I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.
Writing 'Blue Bird' gave me strength, courage, and power from my own words and melodies in a time when I needed it the most.
You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy.
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
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 would love to hone my skills and learn Indian classical music. It's a vast sea of melodies and ragas, and I enjoy it immensely.
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.
My biggest influence growing up was Avicii, who put me onto creating the sorts of melodies that feature throughout my songs today.
We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not.
Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories.
Once I came along, I started giving more smooth melodies, more songs for the ladies, a new vibe, and Philly wasn't used to all that.
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 often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.