Synyster Gates Quotes

Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading - the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.

I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place, and you're enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody.

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.

With Audioslave, it's all about melody and chord progressions.

I would never dispute the fact that music is my greatest love.

You know, many people do not know that I am so immersed when it comes to music. I have such a huge knowledge of music. I like my songs, I like my melodies, my harmonies, you know.

Music has to deal with silence. Music has to deal with time.

Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody.

I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music.

I always think about music horizontally and vertically at the same time.

I love to work with producers who are very good with their chord progressions.

Music is about depth. Music is about harmony. Music is about notes and tones.

I started studying counterpoint and theory with a physicist whose hobby was music.

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

It is the responsibility of music composers to add some classical music elements into their songs to make the music genre popular.

I absolutely love music. Music is so powerful and can set the tone and change your mood.

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.