Top 66 Melodic Quotes

It was Skrillex who got me into dubstep. He made it melodic – not just a bunch of crazy sounds.

I’m mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don’t often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums.

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

I want to be the most melodic artist. ‘His music ability, the way he write, his creativity is undeniable.’ I want people to say that about me.

I think what makes me stand out from the rest is my melodic style combined with my voice, which has a distinct character to it.

Basically, I’m a melodic writer.

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn’t come out the same if we’re not really excited about it.

You hear a Willie Nelson solo, he doesn’t play real fast, but it’s so melodic and beautiful. It’s kind of, to be human is to have space and not show all your stuff all the time.

I was more of a melodic player. Angus was more into the rock world. Straightaway, I said this is how we should do it. It was never a brotherly squabble but the opposite, because we just wanted to do good as a band.

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.

While I’m quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I’ve done quite a lot of. It’s also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.

I like clever songs. I like songs that make people think and I try to have substance in all my records, even with ‘Sweet Dreams’ how it was a club record and it was up tempo, but it was melodic and it was, like, lyrical.

Chop Suey!’ was really heavy, but it had a lot of melodic parts. It was fast and frenzy.

It was pretty radical to go from the Eagles to being the only melodic instrument. You have to play a certain way. It’s like the Who. It was a great kick in the pants for me to get my chops up and to improvise a little more.

I grew up in Southern California and always loved melodic pop music.

I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it’s a good defining thing for the two projects.

I wanted to be so many different things in the beginning – I wanted to be a rocker, I wanted to be a great songwriter, I wanted to be a great melodic singer.

I always liked music that was melodic, but that had something a bit more wonky and odd going on too.

On a more serious note, my challenges with hearing loss are certainly an interesting journey. The surprising upside is that my difficulties in hearing have motivated me to know my guitar fretboard better. My playing has become much more melodic and intentional as a result.

I love melodic tunes and I think Kannada listeners have an ear for romantic songs.

I write in a very melodic way, so that will never leave. I think my records will always tend to be approachable.

When I did my rock band, I pined for a more soulful sound. I wanted music that was very melodic and blues-based.

I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

I don’t know what genre you would put us into, and I’m always telling people that. When I’m trying to explain In This Moment’s sound to them, all I can say is that its diverse-sounding, with influences such as metalcore’s breakdowns, metal in general and some melodic rock.

I’ve made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It’s melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

But over a period of time It’s the melodic things that are in my head all day.

Melodic hooks is kinda hard for me. I’m a rapper at heart, you know what I’m saying?

I didn’t know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it’s a little more melodic that way and doesn’t sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I’d be a happy man!

Black Eyed Peas music appealed to everybody and that’s why we incorporated EDM influences, dance influences, house influences, and we mashed it up with the Black Eyed Pea melodic pop sensibility that still has bounce to it.

‘Epicloud’ is the first record that I felt confident enough to include all those things on one record, so it goes between melodic hard rock to schizophrenic heavy metal to country to really ambient stuff, and it’s all in one place.

I love the song ‘Into the Night.’ It’s Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super ’60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

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.

Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock’n’roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I’ve done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don’t get your money’s worth.

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day always says we were influences on him, because he does melodic but distorted, like what we were doing. The Ramones were doing it. We were doing it. The Buzzcocks, all those bands.

Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn’t have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.

Melodic songs that people can relate to has always been our thing.

In Denver, all we really had was pop radio, so I grew up on all that late ’70s pop stuff – Billy Joel, James Taylor, Lionel Richie, Elton John, Steve Miller and Toto. Great love songs and really hooky and melodic music – I have all of that stuff in my heart.

I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.

I’m a fan of Miguel’s; he’s a friend of mine. I like melodic music, you know?

I remember being obsessed with ‘The Score’ by The Fugees. I used to listen to a lot of really melodic music with a lot of harmonies. The Beach Boys used to make me happy, and Simon and Garfunkel, and I used to listen to a lot of film soundtracks as well.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That’s when I was born.

Women in music have always been associated with pop – with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.

My favorite solos are all very melodic. Those are the ones that are the most memorable.

If the chords change a lot over the course of a song, it’s better to stay within the same melodic structure.

I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That’s something that I do habitually.

As far as the melodic style, I feel like I’m in my own lane.

I’m trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it’s more versatile than people realise it to be. It’s a beautiful instrument, very rhythmic and melodic. You can do anything with it.

We were just four unknown, aspiring Australian musicians singing happy, uplifting, melodic and inspiring songs, and being true to ourselves.

I remember writing ‘5 Dollars’ out of intense listening sessions of Bruce Springsteen. I don’t know if it’s obvious, but I was obsessed with how limpid Bruce Springsteen’s melodies are: It’s such a great way to do storytelling and to still be melodic and catchy.

I became a melodic writer after ‘Gunn.’

I put out ‘Rhythm & Bricks,’ which showed my versatility, and I had a lot of melodic songs on there, then I had a lot of street songs on there, and I just wanted to know what everybody wanted from me. I did put that out so that everybody could get a feel, so ‘Cut It’ just happened to come out of there.

My core thing is gangster rap, but a lot of my music is melodic and carries a message of survival.

I like anything that is melodic, and I’m a very big fan of movie soundtracks, so my favorite artists/producers would be Steve Jablonsky, Hans Zimmer, K-391, Ahrix, KSHMR, and many, many more.