#melody

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#advance #because #catch #figure #finish

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

My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#buddies #crying #i #i can #me

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. ↗

— Yehudi Menuhin

#compatibility #continuity #creates #disjointed #divergent

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#forte #hang #his #hunter #like

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about. ↗

— John Legend

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In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#destined #divided #hungary #into #melody

I really love writing themes and melody. ↗

— Trevor Rabin

#love #melody #really #themes #writing

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard. ↗

— Brad Paisley

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