One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.
Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.
I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.
I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.
I always begin to compose the melody first.
A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.
I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.
All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
I really believe in melody.
We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.
You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.
Without you hearing a melody or music or anything like that, it would say something to you. So, that's what a song is to me. Now, you have a lot of songs that come out, and the beat carries them over there, because of the beat, and because of some other factors and so on and so forth. But I want mine to be a song, if you read it, it's going to mean something to you.
I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level
I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.
What makes a great song - you dont put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.
I love melodies so it's usually where I start.
Hope sings when all melodies are gone.
Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine. - James Carstairs
I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.
I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.
My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all.
Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.
While the business of "collecting" lyrics and melodies happens all the time, when it's time to corral them all into something, I have to be in a good mood, ready and willing to work.
There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.
Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.
