#melody

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

— Drake

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For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards. ↗

— Brian Eno

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The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention. ↗

— Brian Eno

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Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. ↗

— Joshua Logan

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If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

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Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

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Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it. ↗

— Trevor Rabin

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Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns. ↗

— Terry Riley

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So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns. ↗

— Terry Riley

#anything #contribution #essentially #ingredient #into

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

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