#melodies

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#melodies #must #notes #only

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing. ↗

— Lionel Richie

#been #career #i #i can #melodies

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

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance. ↗

— Roscoe Mitchell

#extreme #go #hear #i #instance

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. ↗

— David Bowie

#always #any #been #chords #everything

So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies and counter melodies all played very rhythmically. ↗

— Midge Ure

#built #chords #concentrated #counter #everywhere

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

— Tom Wopat

#heart #his #lot #melodies #schubert

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

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#easy #just #melodies #objectives #record