Kurt Cobain Quotes

Harmonies are nice.

I really believe in melody.

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.

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.

My course is about really working on a sheet of music. You work out the chords, which note complements the other, and how they will make the feeling of tension, the feeling of resolution. It's all about harmonization. That's more of the theory of notation and everything rather than practical. I don't play any instrument.

I'm a guy who doesn't know the name of the chord, but I know that it sounds good.

I like playing guitar I don't like talking about it. I like writing riffs, I don't like explaining them.

I love melody more than any other part of music.

The melodies are always the most important part to me. I am pulled more to the groove than the chord progression. After you find the groove, you find the most simple chord progressions and then sit inside that groove.

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

Music is really, really mathematical.

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

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.

I found that music was my favorite art form.

I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

I'm a percussionist, so that's most of what I know when I attack a record. Melodically, knowing the keys - my first love - that makes the perfect blend.

I don't really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For me, whatever style it is, it always depends on the chord progression, the lyrics, and the melody used.

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

I love countermelodies, I love hooks and melodies that stick in your head. If I could put 20 melodies in a song and they would all work together, I would.

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

I like inventive melodies and chord changes, a little bit of creativity.

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.