- Nov 07, 2020
Melody Quotes
The tune that ties a song together.
These melody quotes look at how songwriters often begin with a tune before anything else, and how melody brings continuity to otherwise scattered musical ideas. Related reading lives in our Like quotes.
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- Compatibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
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I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
- Head
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There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.
- Island
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.
- Chord
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.
- Heroes
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- Nov 07, 2020