#melodies

Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities. ↗

— Liz Phair

#chance #composing #dimensions #down #essential

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

#belong #better #head #i #melodies

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

— Tracy Chapman

#just #line #lyrics #melodies #remain

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#great #great thing #i #like #lyrics

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

— Michel Legrand

#effortlessly #gift #i #me #melodic

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. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#come #guitar #helps #i #just

My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#creative #creative process #dishes #head #hear

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. ↗

— John Keats

#melodies #sweet #sweeter #those #unheard

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

— Steven Tyler

#come #far #goes #i #ideas

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#freddie #freddie mercury #growing #growing up #his