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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.
Bono
Morning
Better
Wake Up
Band
Melodies
Studio
Head
Noble
Still
Wake
Up
Privilege
African
Where
Want
Room
Poor
Rehearsal
Servants
Serve
Belong
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
Brian Eno
Me
Way
Melodies
Those
Out
Find
Most
Fit
Very
Trying
Hitting
Interesting
Notes
Interesting Way
Then
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
Bruno Mars
Honesty
Big
Believe
Melodies
Tricks
Inside
Strongly
Write
Songs
Coming
Just
I think with me and the type of music that I'm trying to make, it's always going be soulful because I grew up listening to different types and variations of soulful melodies and jazz, but experimenting with different types of stylistic souls.
Charlie Puth
Music
Me
Listening
Jazz
Think
Type
Types
Melodies
Variations
Make
Because
Soulful
Always
Souls
Stylistic
Up
Trying
Going
Different
Grew
Experimenting
Different Types
I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.
Chino Moreno
Me
Preach
Enjoy
Say
Melodies
More
Voice
Instrument
Always
Soapbox
Rhythms
Use
Less
I remember writing '5 Dollars' out of intense listening sessions of Bruce Springsteen. I don't know if it's obvious, but I was obsessed with how limpid Bruce Springsteen's melodies are: It's such a great way to do storytelling and to still be melodic and catchy.
Christine and the Queens
Great
Writing
Remember
Listening
Way
Melodic
Melodies
Out
Bruce
Bruce Springsteen
Obsessed
Catchy
Know
Obvious
Great Way
How
Still
Springsteen
Dollars
Intense
Storytelling
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.
Chuck Mangione
Music
Strong
Own
Harmonies
Melodies
Strive
My Own
Concept
Disciplined
Intense
Brazilian
Brazilian Music
Rhythmic
Interesting
Ingredients
Many
I've always been a writer who does simplistic, simple melodies. But I think it works.
Corin Tucker
Simple
Think
Melodies
Writer
Simplistic
Does
Always
Been
Who
Works
Often, with our music, there's quite a lot going on, so people hear melodies that sound up and catchy, and production, and maybe don't really listen to what the songs are about, so it's nice to sing a song like 'The Currents' and really mean it.
Dan Smith
Music
People
Song
Nice
Our
Melodies
Our Music
About
Songs
Catchy
Like
Sing
Sound
Hear
Lot
Up
Going
Listen
Quite
Often
Maybe
Quite A Lot
Currents
Mean
Really
Production
I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.
Danger Mouse
Music
Me
Heart
Bit
Melodies
Part
Look
Most
Got
Break
Little
Little Bit
Your
Thing
Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.
Daniel Levitin
People
Some People
Others
Melodies
Some
Like
Likely
Very
Predictable
Prefer
Notes
Less
We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.
Dave Haywood
Music
Good
You
Sometimes
Humming
Lyrics
Say
Melodies
Melody
Out
Finding
See
Something
Takes
Instrumentation
Go
Lot
Verses
Get
Trying
Where
Want
As Far As
Far
Figure
Start
Second
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.
Dave Matthews
Time
Words
Simple
Too
Right Time
Way
Melodies
Favorite
Songwriters
Until
Occasionally
Manage
Going
Listen
Often
Just
Stop
Notes
Many
Chords
Keep
Right
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.
David Amram
Time
You
Gorgeous
Listening
Bach
Way
Melodies
Someone
Simultaneously
Parts
Accompanying
Same
Going
Listen
Same Time
Being
Where
Which
Them
Four
Played
What makes something pop? It's really just the bed it's placed in. If I grab melodies by Black Sabbath or Metallica and take them out of their musical bed and put them into a pop context, it's not like they wouldn't translate.
David Draiman
Black
Musical
Melodies
Out
Black Sabbath
Something
Sabbath
Take
Put
Like
Makes
Metallica
Bed
Context
Grab
Just
Placed
Them
Translate
Really
Pop
The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.
David Guetta
Good
Better
Changes
Melodies
More
Emotional
Because
Makes
Clubs
Really
Less
Radio
Chord
In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.
Dinah Shore
Music
Time
You
Writing
Country
Important
Lyric
Melodies
Complex
More
Marvelous
New
Country Music
Singers
Hear
Get
Form
Interested
Little
Who
Popular
Popular Music
Interpreting
For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.
Don Felder
Somewhere
Every
Think
Lyrics
Completed
Melodies
Those
Out
Some
Brought
Had
Songs
Hotel
Between
Like
California
Tracks
Came
Tape
Sixteen
Eighteen
Them
Worked
Products
Basic
Things
Fourteen
Album
When I was younger, I had conversations with friends about wanting to create something different. Every young musician probably thinks that. But it's difficult to do, because there are only so many words, notes, melodies, songs. But as soon as I stopped thinking and started feeling, it worked. I didn't realize it till I was done.
FKA twigs
Words
Feeling
Young
Difficult
Every
Thinking
Melodies
Musician
About
Something
Only
Had
Songs
Soon
Because
Till
Friends
Done
Stopped
Different
Wanting
Conversations
Notes
Younger
Realize
Worked
Create
Many
Started
Thinks
Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first.
Flume
Work
Focus
First
Melodies
Vocalist
Like
Often
The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came from the fact that we had grown up before rock n' roll. We listened to all the great songwriters and big bands, songs with great lyrics and melodies. I think that really influenced everybody.
Frankie Valli
Music
Time
Great
Business
Creativity
Big
Before
Think
Music Business
Everybody
Lyrics
Melodies
Magical
Fact
Had
Songs
Songwriters
Talent
Rock
Came
Rock-N-Roll
Lot
Up
Bands
Roll
Listened
Influenced
Much
Really
Grown
Grown-Up
That's that Dungeon Family ethos: being able to reinvent yourself, stand out and stand alone. Having your own character and having your own image, no matter what they say about you. I want to show my versatility and how diverse I am, how I approach the track, my rhythm, my melodies. It's something different.
Future
Alone
Family
Character
You
Yourself
Matter
Own
Approach
Say
Melodies
Out
Able
About
Diverse
Something
Having
Track
How
Am
Versatility
Dungeon
Being
Different
Want
Rhythm
Stand
Ethos
Your
Show
They Say
Reinvent
Image
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
Gary Cherone
Music
Queen
Listening
Incredible
Melodies
Those
Freddie Mercury
Threw
Songs
Mercury
His
Up
Growing
Growing Up
I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.
Geddy Lee
Song
Melodies
Evocative
Structure
More
Am
Textures
Moved
Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.
Gian Carlo Menotti
Beautiful
Writing
Difficult
Melodies
Because
Very
Fashionable
I like the sounds of EDM; the guys create new sounds, beautiful sounds. The melodies, it's a little less. I like the kind of melodies I did with Donna Summer, or 'Flashdance,' where you have a verse, a chorus - a song setup.
Giorgio Moroder
Beautiful
You
Song
Setup
Summer
Melodies
Kind
Guys
New
Like
Sounds
Verse
Did
Where
Little
Create
Less
Chorus
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