#melodies

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#favorite #going #i #i do #just

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#melodies #must #notes #only

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. ↗

— James Gates Percival

#brightness #dance #full #living #melodies

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing. ↗

— Lionel Richie

#been #career #i #i can #melodies

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music. ↗

— Dinah Shore

#became #bothered #came #important #less

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#cast #decide #director #fifty #forty

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. ↗

— Brian Eno

#fit #hitting #interesting #interesting way #me

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head. ↗

— Bono

#belong #better #head #i #melodies

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means. ↗

— David Bowie

#always #any #been #chords #everything

So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies and counter melodies all played very rhythmically. ↗

— Midge Ure

#built #chords #concentrated #counter #everywhere