Melody Quotes
The tune that ties a song together.
These melody quotes look at how songwriters often begin with a tune before anything else, and how melody brings continuity to otherwise scattered musical ideas. Related reading lives in our Like quotes.
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
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I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.
There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.
Always Quotes
One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.
I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.
First Quotes
There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.
I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.
Like Quotes
I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.
