Top 210 Melodies Quotes

The melodies I come up with, they’re not normal.

I do spend time trying to find good melodies, and I try to remember them when I do discover them. But also it’s mostly intuitive; I noodle around with the line until it sounds and feels right.

I was doing a lot of teaching on my online guitar school and I started to use vocal melodies as a way of teaching my students. To be able to do that, I had to learn them myself.

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 chose ‘Time’ by Hans Zimmer because it’s very melodic, and the way it progresses throughout the track is very unique. I am personally a very big fan of piano melodies, and to me, ‘Time’ is just perfect.

Music has always been an important part of the ‘Final Fantasy’ series. The popular role-playing games have typically featured catchy, eclectic soundtracks filled with beautiful orchestrated melodies.

John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.

I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes.

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.

Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.

I’m a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don’t fill the days with a lot of sound.

I love country music so much. I love all kinds of music. But when it comes down to it, I’m from East Tennessee, and country melodies and country songs have always just sliced me in the heart.

Absolutely, I’m living my dream. Yeah. My wife always jokes, says I’m a big kid, you know, playing in the studio and coming up with melodies and sounds. And, you know, I wouldn’t know any other way because I just have music in my head all the time, and I just love it.

I used to – my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I’ve always heard kind of melodies in my head.

I think I have a sound or a certain feel in certain harmonies in the way I construct melodies.

I’m pretty good at delivering my songs, but I just want to perfect the craft by creating melodies.

Melodies are important. I always kind of pride myself on my melodies.

I like good melodies and a great song.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

I’m a sucker for pop melodies, things you can’t get out of your head.

I like to try to keep my music happy because it can make other people happy. And that’s the way I feel when I listen to Avicii’s songs. I get happy because his melodies are so happy.

We like to take pop songs that have really cool, complex melodies or lyrics and strip away all that fluff and electronic noise, and put them back as if they were written for a singer and a piano.

In western classical music with an orchestra, you focus the orchestra on melodies and harmony. In African music, the biggest focus is on rhythms and counter-rhythms – the complexity of rhythms.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

I realized that, for me, great records always moved me with the lyrics and the melodies. And so I said, ‘I think I can do it now,’ ’cause I found a team of people who understand I didn’t want a record that was ‘drop it, pop it, shake it’ just ’cause I can dance.

We try to make air-tight, intricate songs with melodies and counter-melodies and rhythms that work together, and we try to make it as palatable as possible – something that’s not difficult to listen to.

So I write melodies – thirty, forty, fifty – then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

It’s very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don’t mean to say it’s very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that’s my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

I think if you go to ‘Strength of the World,’ a song like that, the chorus isn’t that great, but you go into the bridge and other things and the catchier parts and the better melodies we were really focused on.

Some people are great lyricists, but they’re terrible at melody. But I could do melodies till the cows come home.

I try to tell the truth in my lyrics; write good melodies and make hard beats. So, basically, I just combine hip-hop with melody. That’s how I classify myself.

I usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in the middle of the night because that’s when my mind is the quietest. I always have my tape recorder, pen and pad by my bed just in case.

That’s one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies – and the harmonies – that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.

When I was young and didn’t know any English, I was drawn by the energy and power of foreign songs and their melodies.

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I’d play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.

I’ve always been attracted to odd chord changes and interesting melodies.

Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They’re all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They’re tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

I’ve always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country – what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.

People live their lives through melodies. If you can’t sing, then music is worthless.

Drake is a lyrical genius, and he’s great with melodies, and Pharrell is an amazing producer and songwriter.

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.

My biggest influence growing up was Avicii, who put me onto creating the sorts of melodies that feature throughout my songs today.

One would be lying if one didn’t say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that’s a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don’t like the melodies, and vice versa.

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

When I hear ‘fusion,’ I think of Tricky-Dick stuff – really hairy melodies played in unison. It’s like, ‘Why?’

If you see a credit with just my name on it, that means I write absolutely everything: rhythm guitar parts, guitar melodies, vocal melodies… absolutely everything, really.

The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.

Country songs are theatrical songs, they tell stories, and wear the hearts on their sleeves and they have great melodies.

I know I can’t do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level.

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

I see myself like what Drake did in the game. I came with melodies and different lyrics, from a different place – reggaeton is from Puerto Rico; Drake is from Canada.

Usually when we go in to cut demos, one of us will lay down some mumbling sort of stuff for the vocal melodies because the lyrics don’t come until later.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

My dad is Polish. My mom is Moroccan, and I grew up around all kinds of different languages, and I love playing with it, and I love picking up new melodies.

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

I think one of the biggest sleepers that people are going to be able to dig into later is ‘Fermi Paradox,’ it’s the song before ‘Exist.’ To me it’s got the coolest, it’s just so bizarre because it’s got one of the most melodic vocal melodies, but we put it over a black metal blast beats.

Great music is just very clear. Sonically and lyrically, you understand the point of view, you understand the melodies, you understand the vibe, and you understand the lyric pretty damn quickly. To me, that doesn’t make it ‘less than’ – it makes it ‘more than.’