Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erich Bergen

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

Ariel Pink

I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

Billy Bob Thornton

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.

Norman Blake

There's more pressure on the melody when you don't have all the embellishments,

Drake Bell

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

Norah Jones

I really love things with melody.

Juan Felipe Herrera

I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.

Chuck D.

Melody is an important part of all the music I've written. I think that's why it has been so successful. It's music that sticks in your head.

Johannes Brahms

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.

Chico Hamilton

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

Chico Hamilton

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

Chico Hamilton

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Chico Hamilton

I don't dig staying in one groove.

Chick Corea

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what Kind of Blue did.

Chick Corea

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

Edith Wharton

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Eddie Murphy

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

Eddie Izzard

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Avril Lavigne

When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that.

Greg Walker

The thing that sticks out to me about him, he's our kind of player. He's a grinder.

Barbara Sher

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Ben Fountain

It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.

Bret Harte

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

Dennis Quaid

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

Dave Ramsey

When you create a basic budget and stick to it, it will suddenly seem like you have more money.

Stephen Jay Gould

If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.