Greg Gutfeld Quotes

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

People tend to put too much focus on the lyrics. It's not the be-all and end-all of our songs.

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.

In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

I believe that melody is such a lost part of music and country music. People are either scared of it or not using all the colors that are available.

For me, honest critique is not all about your feelings and your ear. Honest critique is sitting down with an album that you may not put on in your spare time, and really digging into that album, so you can talk about the beat selection.

I love a beautiful, soaring, singable melody. But what really draws me to a song, at the end of the day, is the words.

My favorite song is called 'Reachout.' There are so many different stories told in that song. I think anyone who listens to it will gather a different meaning, but each answer is true. I also like the sound of it, period - there are a lot of classical influences.

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

Good music is good music.

When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It can add perspective to a great piece of music that does not have a lyric and may be inaccessible to lot of ears because people don't deal with complex music very well.

There's more to hip-hop than just trying to make everything rhyme, and you find out in life that everything don't rhyme. The music they're cutting is musically fantastic.

It doesn't take much for anyone to pick up anything I play - it's quite simple. I go for a good song. And if you hear a good song, you don't dissect it - you just listen, and every bit seems right.

My dad could hold a tune. He wasn't necessarily a singer, but he did love music, and he listened to it quite loud in the car.