#melody

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

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Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

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

— Pablo Casals

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

— Wayne Coyne

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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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The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention. ↗

— Brian Eno

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We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

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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

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Every soul is a melody which needs renewing. ↗

— Stephane Mallarme

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Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it. ↗

— Trevor Rabin

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