Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Copland

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

Erich Bergen

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

Ariel Pink

I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

Billy Bob Thornton

[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.

Drake Bell

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

Juan Felipe Herrera

I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.

Burning Spear

Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?

Douglas Levine

But other than that, I go from the text and the rhythms of the words. The melody comes from that,

Norman Blake

There's more pressure on the melody when you don't have all the embellishments,