Melodies Quotes

I have to say this singing was harder than any I`ve done before. The melodies are so fast that you can barely get a breath in. But once I got past the `Oh my God, what have I gotten myself into` phase, it was so much fun to sing again.

I want to bring my songs and melodies to hip-hop beats. It may be a disaster, it could be fantastic, but you don`t know until you try.

Having ten melodies was also a huge challenge, because I usually have three - sometimes just one or two, but often three that I`m using.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It`s always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

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.

For me they are pop songs. Beautiful melodies, fantastic lyrics, great accompaniments. I feel that my job as a pop artist is to develop as a musician, and to bring into my sphere elements that aren`t necessarily pop, more complex intervals, complex time signatures. (On performing the music of John Dowland on his album "Songs From The Labyrinth")

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.

I wasn`t writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I`d listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We`d put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

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

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

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.

I`ve always loved the fact that there`s a really unique quality to sixties music. Everything from the chord progressions to the melodies themselves - and they still sound amazing today.

When his name is added to those of Pleyel and Kozeluch, Scottish melodies can boast of being harmonized by the greatest luminaries of modern music,

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.

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.

By the end of it, you never know how it`s going to turn out. Hopefully if I pick the right songs and put the right melodies on it and all the collaboration works out. it`s a win-win situation.

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson`s poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.