Melody Quotes - Page 19

• When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas. Eventually, that process of using my voice to bring ideas across became more complicated, and I felt I could use it more as an expressive tool.

  M. Ward

  Writing, Ideas, Voice

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• I'm trying to be expressive on my instrument and conduct as I'm improvising. So I'm conducting with the melodies and the rhythms that I play. And so it's a very organic way. It's a lot like Charles Mingus played, cuing people in from what you play and how you play it rather than standing in front of a band, conducting and pointing.

  Joe Lovano

  Play, People, Trying

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• The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in 1959, and recorded in 1965 by Jimmy Ellege. I started writing songs because I wanted something of my own to sing. I, at that time, was not aware that the songs I heard on the radio were not written by the folks singing them. I had always loved poetry, and found it easy to integrate a melody with poetry.

  Mickey Newbury

  Song, Writing, Long

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• It was a matter of not seeing the woods for the trees. Glorious songs have been in Ireland forever, but a lot of these were so popular they were sung only by drunken men at weddings. They didn't have any regard for the song at all. So, I picked out 14 songs that I had grown up with, songs with great melodies. After 35 years as a songwriter, I appreciate the value of a good melody because I know how hard it is to write one. So I presented them in a new way, with piano, keyboards, strings, and a contemporary rhythm section. I just treated the melody with a bit of dignity and a bit of style.

  Phil Coulter

  Song, Writing, Men

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• I went through eight years of classical piano lessons without being able to read notes. I only have to hear a melody to be able to play it. It used to freak my piano teacher out when he finally noticed that notes don't make any sense to me and that I played by ear.

  Liam Howlett

  Teacher, Eight, Years

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• Well I mean I just sit at the piano and maybe figure out some harmony or melody or both. Sometimes you can hear it in your head. Sometimes you don't always have to write it down. You just write it down so you can remember it.

  Roy Hargrove

  Writing, Mean, Piano

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• I like to get a vibe first, then a melody and really beat up the melody for a while, then try and find a lyric that really suits him/her.

  Matt Squire

  Trying, Firsts, Suits

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• It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

  Matt Berninger

  Writing, Important, Stories

  Source: the-talks.com

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• I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.

  Zach Condon

  Brain, Trying, Flow

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• I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.

  Zach Condon

  Long, Progression, Chords

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• I was getting really influenced by some darker, heavier electro stuff, like Crystal Castles. And I was listening to some dub-step elements, so I thought this was going to be the natural progression, taking my soft melodies and my soft voice and marrying it with something a little heavier.

  Lights

  Voice, Listening, Littles

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• I've never used the word jamming. It's a matter of finding a great song and learning the chords, then slightly altering the vocal melody, and matching a classic chord progression with another chord progression.

  M. Ward

  Song, Matter, Matching

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. 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.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, Musician, Sound

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing.

  Yip Harburg

  Song, Heart, Brain

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• I'm working with a producer, Scott Jacoby, who co-wrote "Trouble" off No Beginning No End. Without giving away too much, it's a definite pop/r&b vibe, pretty strong melodies, and definitely about songs.

  Jose James

  Song, Strong, Giving

  Source: revive-music.com

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• The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you've got to really listen hard to somebody who's doing a good melody and a good lyric.

  Barry Manilow

  Country, Interesting, Gone

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For my 21st birthday, I think my mother wanted to give me a watch, or something, you know, some kind of traditional thing. And I said, "Well, if you're going to buy me something, there's a Gibson Melody Maker guitar advertised in the paper for 60 dollars. Do you think I could have that?" And I think that she was very disappointed that at 21 I was still messing around with that sort of thing. She didn't understand what it was all about. But now she understands it, and likes it.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Mother, Thinking, Guitar

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [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.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Ideas, Stories, Lines

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• I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Writing, Firsts, Helping

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• My beats and my production aren't dark or emo by any means; it's basically the lyrics I think, and the melody sometimes can be too.

  Sarah Barthel

  Emo, Mean, Dark

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw in a few cover songs like Enya's "Watermark," Bach, and my dad's song, "Song for the Whales."

  Petra Haden

  Song, Dad, Whales

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My first experience with music was my father, he was a stereo buff and he built his own little Hi-Fi center with recorders and everything and I listened to a lot of jazz, which gave me a sensibility for melody.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Father, Littles, Firsts

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• Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

  Plato

  Soul, Principles, Way

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• It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

  Joseph Haydn

  Genius, Invention, Produce

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• I just recorded in studios, you know, people pressed the buttons for me. So I just started recording the bass lines and guitar parts with my voice, covering classical pieces, or just making up melodies so I could learn how to use it.

  Petra Haden

  Guitar, Voice, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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