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I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.
The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.
I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.
As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that's why I can play lots of instruments.
I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.
With all the strife in the world, we must never forget that there is always a new melody, a new tune, a fresh star.
You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.
Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires.
It's such a weird process, songwriting, because you just have to feel it. There's no right or wrong melody or lyric.
I always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we're 90 per cent there.
Look, when a song becomes a hit, it happens because of its tune and melody, and not for the lyrics in the first place.
With Rage, we wrote riff rock and had rap vocals, so we didn't really concern ourselves with melody for the most part.
Nothing matches the sheer euphoria of discovering a new melody or a new batch of chords that just come out of nowhere.
I love a beautiful, soaring, singable melody. But what really draws me to a song, at the end of the day, is the words.
I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only.
I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
People just want to have a bit of fun, something uplifting, funny, that's got a melody to it. That's what we try to do.
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.
Even if I have a quite strong melody, there are so many possibilities and so many directions that you can take the music.
Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
We have been fortunate enough to travel a lot and we focus heavily on melody and that really is an international language.
I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment.
There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.
There was a time when melody was the most important feature in any song. But with time, music underwent a major transition.
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.
I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.
My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all.
I have tremendous respect for Pakistani artistes, they are very talented, especially where music sense and melody is concerned.
When I'm writing with John Leventhal, the music that he's written mostly comes first. And I'll write the lyrics and the melody.
If I can sit down at my keyboard and have a melody that says something that I can't with words, that's a really beautiful thing.
It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.
When it comes to the 1990s songs, we all can recall them by their beautiful poetry, melody and how soothing they were to the soul.
When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.
When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has to respect the melody.
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.
We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
I've always liked string sections. I'm a sucker for melody, so it's fun to have strings add more layer of melody in the arrangement.
I usually write lyrics first, and then when I get home or close to any kind of instrument, I usually make a melody for those lyrics.
My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.
Mainstream Bollywood music has fallen into some sort of a rut where melody, which was very important 'till the '90s, is out of favor.
Though 'KK' is an urban film and has more scope for fast-paced numbers, I've made sure that there's a bit of melody in all the songs.
You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric.
I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.
What makes a great song - you dont put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.
I enjoy and understand melody before I create it. But the challenge is that I've also got to satisfy the film going audience of today.
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.
What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.
You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.
The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.