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.

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.

But other than that, I go from the text and the rhythms of the words. The melody comes from that,

Burning Spear

Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?

Pete Seeger

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

Robert Cray

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.