I've always got these little melodies running around in my head, although most of them aren't worth much, and I understand structure and formulas.
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.
The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.
Writing 'Blue Bird' gave me strength, courage, and power from my own words and melodies in a time when I needed it the most.
My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.
I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
Sometimes, after I finish the lyrics and have all the melodies and harmonies and the pop and vocal, I'll be like, 'I have to keep it. I love it too much.'
I've always really enjoyed sounds and alliteration and funny words and funny melodies.
There's the drums, the music, the melodies, the lyrics, the production, the artwork: there are so many elements to making an album, and the drumming is just a very small fraction of what I focus on.
Usually, I'll just be walking from my house to somewhere else, and melodies and words will start coming up, and I'll have to run home to write it all down.
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
Many times, the way I write my themes or melodies is that I hear it, and then I sing into my phone or something, or I'll scribble down on a piece of paper.
I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.
I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.
People always talk about the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, but I like his melodies. They are very defined and original.
Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they're self-contained entities, the whole shebang.
I was three or four, and my mother would have a Bing Crosby record playing through the house. It was my introduction to jazz, harmonies, melodies, musicianship, and emotion.
Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.
There's a gray area between Conservative and Orthodox people, for whom you don't screw around with the mezuzah, you don't mess with the holy melodies.
When you work on animation, the music has a great task: to create a sound and melodies and mood and atmosphere and energy dedicated to these extraordinary characters.
What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.
A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
Some people are great lyricists, but they're terrible at melody. But I could do melodies till the cows come home.
We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not.
For many artists and critics, beauty is a discredited idea. It denotes the saccharine sylvan scenes and cheesy melodies that appealed to Granny.
Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.
True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.
Country songs are theatrical songs, they tell stories, and wear the hearts on their sleeves and they have great melodies.
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
I never really had any trouble selling my music to country audiences. They appreciate honest lyrics and straightforward melodies, and that's what I do.
Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.
I would love to hone my skills and learn Indian classical music. It's a vast sea of melodies and ragas, and I enjoy it immensely.
Overall, Korean pop serves as the foundation of my musical upbringing. As a result, the melodies that I create just exude that type of vibe.
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
My biggest influence growing up was Avicii, who put me onto creating the sorts of melodies that feature throughout my songs today.
In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
I think I have a sound or a certain feel in certain harmonies in the way I construct melodies.
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.
God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.
It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.
I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.
Every time I would think about my purpose, the answers seemed to come in sounds. In melodies. In feelings.
I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.
I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
What's the essence of the Go-Go's? Great melodies, guitar hooks, driving drums. All of that.
With 'The Xpose,' the main challenge was to create timeless melodies. The thriller is set in the '60s, and we didn't want the songs to sound dated.
I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.
It's never like, 'Now I'm going to sit down and write this or that kind of song.' The melodies may show up in the car, in the shower.
As far as melodies go, I could probably write 100 songs in a day - with no words of course - just because I love melody.
I'm definitely using different parts of myself, but I think when it comes down to words and melodies, I can't really force anything too much.
I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.
I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.
I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.
Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.
When I hear 'fusion,' I think of Tricky-Dick stuff - really hairy melodies played in unison. It's like, 'Why?'
It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.
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