Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.
I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most.
I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.
Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the USA' kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out-of-control beautiful.
I like good melodies and a great song.
I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.
With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.
Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.
I first write melodies that will make people shiver, and then, I add the lyrics.
I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.
For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.
In the negro melodies of america I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.
