Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck D.

Melody is an important part of all the music I've written. I think that's why it has been so successful. It's music that sticks in your head.

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.

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.

Aaron Copland

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

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,

Drake Bell

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

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.

Glen Flanagan

Our pressure got to them in the second quarter.

Dan Boyle

Ottawa. Wow. They've had our number. ... But there'll be pressure on them.

Jim Calhoun

We need someone to take the pressure off Marcus.

Bill Cowher

Pressure is something you put on yourself.

CC Sabathia

I don't feel any pressure. I'm not nervous about going out there and pitching.

Antonia Thomas

Ive felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from Misfits.

Joe Lang

I think they got a little frustrated. We are not very big so we have to put pressure on teams in the backcourt.

John Kosmina

I think there is more pressure on them (the Mariners). We have got nothing to lose. We already have one trophy in the cabinet.

Tony Amonte

Just get it out of the way. Enough talking about it, enough putting pressure on yourself to score.