#melody

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#fit #i #i can #long #melody

I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry. ↗

— Buck Owens

#basic #berry #bit #change #chuck

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody. ↗

— Adam Rich

#definitely #focuses #heavy #hopefully #look

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

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

#emotional #head #melody #rhythm #state

I'm just an animal looking for a home Share the same space for a minute or two And you love me till my heart stops Love me till I'm dead ↗

— David Byrne

#talking-heads #this-must-be-the-place #home

Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34. ↗

— Melody Beattie

#gratitude #melody-beattie #recovery #faith

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright. ↗

— Lee Hazlewood

#alright #good #guess #heard #i

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true. ↗

— Don Henley

#forget #get #head #melody #notes