#melody

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy. ↗

— Enya

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The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#biography #body #individual #island #joins

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

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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

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#done #english #i #lyrics #making

Music is about textures as well as melody. ↗

— Ken Hill

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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#heart #melody #never #paper #put

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

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I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap. ↗

— Drake

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For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards. ↗

— Brian Eno

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