Melody Quotes

• Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

  

  Claudio Monteverdi
  • Text
  • Rhythm
  • Melody

• Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing here and there so that not everything is perfectly in unison. It adds a texture you can acquire only from having different voices. The variations lead to interesting quirks. It's an integral part of the Enya sound.

  

  Nicky Ryan
  • Secret
  • Sound
  • Variations

• I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.

  

  Tom Araya Slayer
  • Try
  • Melody
  • Screaming

• 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.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Inspiration
  • Lyrics
  • Arrangements

• It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not It just means that you're in sync with yourself. And whatever your goal is, in terms of hearing a melody or a lyric, the closer you get to it, the faster it comes out and the easier it is to "spit it out", as it were.

  

  Nilsson
  • Happens
  • Songwriting
  • Faster

• A great song for me is when I hear it and it's contagious. The lyrics and the melody, if grows on you once and you want to hear it over and over again.

  

  Easton Corbin
  • Song
  • Grows
  • Contagious

• No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose. For me, it's always about melody - it doesn't matter what genre of music you're writing, if there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• A lot of people love men that rock; I love men that love a good melody and a good harmony.

  

  Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
  • People
  • Good
  • Harmony

• I'm a very melody-driven writer and I have a rule that I don't write anything down because if I can't remember the melody than it wasn't worth remembering. So it's my way to test myself in the studio. When I was a kid I could sing pretty well so melody always made a lot of sense to me.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I always begin to compose the melody first.

  

  Nobuo Uematsu The Black Mages
  • Melody
  • Compose

• I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep it fluid.

  

  Negash Ali
  • Melody
  • Background
  • Mix

• Blue grass was the outgrowth of Irish music. As a matter of fact a lot the tunes, a lot of the melodies and the jigs... have different names but are actually the same tunes.

  

  Keith Getty
  • Music
  • Different
  • Names

• All the songwriters that I worked with said they'd like to work with me again. Such things serve as much inspiration for me. I regard myself a melody maker so it made me happy to be recognized for my work.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Inspiration
  • Songwriters
  • Makers

• 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.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Harmony
  • Melody
  • My Thoughts

• Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol Dunkley, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown you know. They have unique voice and sweet melody and you know, good lyrics those time yeh. The music was very nice in that time still seen, because you find that even the musical part, the musicians concentrate more on the melody than everything, more than how they concentrate on the money that time you Know

  

  Gregory Isaacs
  • Artist
  • Unique
  • Sweet

• As far as the music goes, I like melody.

  

  Dickey Betts
  • Music
  • Melody

• If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Beach
  • Boys
  • Smiley

• Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

  

  Etta James
  • Singing
  • Discipline
  • Jazz

• Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits your ear. Keep the bass line moving so you don't stay in one spot: if you have an interesting bass line and you roll it against the melody, the chords are going to come out right.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Leading
  • Alternatives
  • Bass Line

• I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.

  

  DJ Ashba Beautiful Creatures
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Kind

• You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Tough
  • Melody
  • Sells

• A folk melody can exist uniquely but also still be somewhat familiar to you.

  

  Ruston Kelly
  • Melody
  • Folk
  • Uniquely

• Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

  

  Terrence Mitchell Riley
  • Musical
  • Repetition
  • Introducing

• The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Music
  • Missing
  • Melody

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