#melody

I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#albums #come #conclusion #decided #enough

In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair. ↗

— Andy Gibb

#british #fair #first #i #isle

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#down #had #head #i #i remember

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth. ↗

— Colin Hay

#different #feel #forth #i #i feel

It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#confluence #different #different elements #elements #lyrics

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#bit #born #composition #entire #even

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

#because #bunch #come #first #hook

I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying. ↗

— Taryn Manning

#brother #go #i #just #know

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

#because #elusive #hard #hold #how