Melodies Quotes

With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.

Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

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.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.