#melody

Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

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It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful. ↗

— Michael Bolton

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Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper. ↗

— Pablo Casals

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I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

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I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes. ↗

— Robert Cray

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The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

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I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap. ↗

— Drake

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