Melody Quotes - Page 20

• I don't want to write melodies anymore. I can only write really simple, dumb caveman melodies.

  Derek E. Miller

  Writing, Simple, Dumb

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I'm not a haiku artist, but I wanted to use the phrase 5, 7, 5 in the melody that flows over time. So the string melody, the first one is five notes, the next one is seven, and then the third one is five.

  Terry Bozzio

  Artist, Flow, Next

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• [Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it could mean and whether this could be the ancestor song. So, I started writing English lyrics to sort of the same melody.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: deadline.com

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• The white music was melodic and pretty, and you had beautiful women's voices like Gogi Grant and even the Andrews Sisters. Then I went directly to rhythm and blues, which had beautiful voices but not much melody in particular and pretty much the same chord pattern. I loved it, I was entrenched in it, but then folk music came in the middle of that for me, and made its own path. And it was part of the rebellion against bubblegum music, or music that is pretty but doesn't say anything.

  Joan Baez

  Beautiful, Voice, White

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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• I like the type of music that can make my heart beat and the melody that makes me high but this type of music isn't popular in Korea.

  Seungri

  Heart, Korea, Beats

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• I came up with the "We are explorers," with sort of a counter-melody to [Opetaia Foa'i] melody. And so, it happened so organically, that it really, to me, is the most emblematic of our collaboration.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Collaboration, Explorers, Happened

  Source: deadline.com

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• I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.

  Bradley Joseph

  Memorable, Writing, Musician

  Official Bio from bradleyjoseph.com,

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• When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.

  Christian Kane

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!

  Angel Olsen

  Song, Writing, People

  Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. January 24, 2014.

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• No harmony. No melody. No rhythm. No bullshit.

  Phill Niblock

  Bullshit, Harmony, Rhythm

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• It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected way. Authors, composers and artists have tried - and here we've rounded up our favorite quotes that help to begin forming structure around such an unspoken universal force. Which are most meaningful to you? If you had to sum up the power of music and sound in one sentence, what would you say?"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."

  Leopold Stokowski

  Meaningful, Moving, Artist

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• Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Caring, Harmony, Made

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• My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I'm quite limited as a player, so it's my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Writing, Player, Giving

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• No offence to Hugh MacLennan, but you don't even have to know or understand any deep philosophy that's being espoused, you can just have the feeling of those words together, and that you know them and can sing along with that melody with your fist up in the air. It's a wild vehicle for sentiment, because it's so powerful on the musical front.

  Sarah Harmer

  Powerful, Philosophy, Air

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many melodies fly about, one must be careful not to tread on them.

  Johannes Brahms

  Fall, Tables, Notes

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• I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

  India.Arie

  True Life, Energy, Force

  Source: www.tv.com

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• I have never doubted the importance of melody. I like melody very much, and I consider it the most important element in music, and I labour many years on the improvement of its quality in my compositions.

  Sergei Prokofiev

  Years, Important, Quality

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• I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff. It's the first thing I have to solidify whenever...I get into a character. The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.

  Guy Pearce

  Moving, Character, Voice

  Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com.

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• I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much more of a musical approach: You learn a melody, and then you sing it, I suppose, or you find a rhythm or a cadence that works for the material. And then it's sort of about hitting that note correctly and finding those beats.

  Brady Corbet

  Character, Musical, Cadence

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

  Dolly Parton

  Running, Ideas, Mind

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• I'm inspired to write songs in many different ways - it can come from a melody, a word or phrase or something I have seen on my travels around the world. It's one of the great bonuses of my job in that I get to meet so many people and experience different cultures and it would be hard not to be inspired.

  Chris de Burgh

  Song, Jobs, Writing

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• I put in the sounds of instruments such as the guitar and piano, which everybody hears often, and tried to go with melodies that would sound familiar. Rather than trying to do music that I want to do, I focused on doing music that I want my fans to hear.

  Seungri

  Guitar, Piano, Trying

  "[INTERVIEW] Big Bang member Seungri". Interview with Kwon Seok-jung, en.tenasia.com. August 27, 2013.

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• 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.

  Seungri

  Inspiration, Makers, Made

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• I was probably five years old or four years and I would listen to "White Christmas," and I just thought it was the most beautiful thing ever. The musicianship and his voice and the melody of that song; it's almost like I wish it wasn't a Christmas song because I wish that you were allowed to listen to it all year.

  Michael Buble

  Beautiful, Song, Years

  "Michael Buble On Fishing, Sinatra And Auto-Tune". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. April 28, 2013.

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• Most people don't take some things into consideration. When they hear an album, they hear the artist or they hear the lyric or they hear the melody. But they don't really think about the environment in which it was recorded, which is so important. It's that thing that determines what the album sounds like.

  Dave Grohl

  Thinking, Artist, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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