#melodie

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#deliver #even #foreign #foreign language #hard

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. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#before #began #bookstore #came #composing

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#came #created #english #expand #explored

Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. ↗

— Julianne Hough

#amazing #fantastic #i #i love #love

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

— Gwen Stefani

#hard #ideas #letting #lyrical #melodies

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#evocative #i #i am #melodies #more

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

#favorite #going #i #i do #just

Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them. ↗

— Haley Reinhart

#away #band #beatles #depth #different

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#i think #lyrics #melodies #superior #think

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#cast #decide #director #fifty #forty