True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means – dynamic rhythm.
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and everywhere there has been a great reaction. It has been really lovely. They listen to the lyrics and the melody over there and the reaction has been fantastic.
Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.
I feel like Rae Sremmurd is just a whole new sound culturally. People don’t understand, but they learn to understand. The melody choice is different and everything.
Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
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 really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won’t forget it.
I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that’s pretty mass appeal. I’m not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it’s not just American. A great song can touch the world.
For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
Composing a melody or a western song is easier than composing a commercial number.
What I like about Kasabian is that it’s melody driven.
All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.
Success is good, but I have seen the other side. I don’t think much about it. I just work towards making a good melody, with catchy yet meaningful lyrics, and as I’m a music producer and arranger myself, I know the sound I need.
When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
There’s been this argument about Coldplay stealing this melody from Joe Satriani, but, if you listen to it, it’s mine! It’s the ‘Foreigner Suite,’ it is!
Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.
I have a lot of memos in my phone of songs; I’ve had dreams about a melody. It’s always melody first as far as when stuff like that happens – I find that my melodic sense is my strongest asset as a songwriter.
A lot of commercial country does speak to people in some way. It’s more of a ear worm or a melody that’s really catchy. That’s something that you certainly want, but it’s only one piece of the criteria for a good song.
I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He’s not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
Doing the instrumental thing, you’re really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.
I’m definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing – I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.
There’s usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.
Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don’t care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that’s my opinion but because I think it’s actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It’s that simple.
Melody is my strength and it requires a lot of hard work, proper training and guidance for singing such songs.
My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down… Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.
‘Appetite for Destruction’ was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that, I got a barrage of guitar songs that I was supposed to put words to, and I don’t know if that was the best thing for Guns.
The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn’t make it easy.
We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we’ll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.
God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn’t – it’s as simple as that.
I’m not a grime act, I’m not a rapper, nor am I melody man. I just make music.
If you can write a catchy melody and a song that captures people around the world, what better thing to do? Other than ‘Let Her Go,’ I haven’t managed to do that. And that’s fine by me.
I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home.
It’s rare when you stumble upon this amazing melody. We’d love to make a ‘Let Me Love You’ every time we go into the studio, but it’s definitely a special one.
I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn’t play it. I’d been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with related changes, I could play the thing I’d been hearing.
We have been fortunate enough to travel a lot and we focus heavily on melody and that really is an international language.
I can’t sing, but I’ll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes – sometimes it’s, like, two minutes, sometimes it’s 20 minutes – until I’ve found like a hook or something that I’m really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that’s my melody, and that’s where I start from.
Melody was banned from music by the composers of the avant-garde. I was unique among them in always using and writing melody and so I think this is why I’ve shared my music, why they can have also pleasure, not only an interesting structure.
If melody is going out of our songs, if meaning of lyrics are getting trivialized, if golden voice is missing from our music and bad content creeps in, all of us should fight it together to stem the rot.
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
Van Heusen understood Sinatra’s style of singing; Sinatra understood Van Heusen’s concept of melody.
I’m glad I had a daughter first because with a boy you have to teach him stuff and it’s just a little different. Having Melody has changed the way I see things. It’s just a heavenly blessing.
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.
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
I personally like melodies. And Mani Sharma garu is the Melody Brahma.
I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I’m saying?
Melody is king, and don’t you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they’re not; they’re just an accompanying factor. If they’re good, you’re really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.
A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
When I play the clarinet, I am 100 percent myself. It is as if it is part of my body. I can play whatever I think. Let me just read a melody and make it as sweet as I can.
My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn’t remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to ’em in a minute.
There was a time when melody was the most important feature in any song. But with time, music underwent a major transition.
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
‘Nova’ was one of the tracks that inspired me to create ‘Fade,’ which later became ‘Faded’. It has a beautiful melody, and the way it progresses throughout the whole track is just amazing!
