Cheo Hodari Coker Quotes

I love songs, so when you're song-based, it doesn't matter which way the production leans.

I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it's rock n' roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song, and if it's a smash, then I'll love the different wordplay and different melodies. That's what I'm a fan of - great music.

A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing.

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.

I've always loved the song 'It Might as Well Be Spring'.

I find that albums generally tell a story. Because it's music, it doesn't have to be in chronological order.

I would say that 'Creed' has a lot more music in it. It's 60 minutes of music, while 'Fruitvale' had about a fourth of that at best. There's a bigger focus in 'Creed' because I had to make music for training montages.

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

For me, growing-up music was always about telling stories.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

I sang my song called "In This Song." David Foster wrote the song for me. I thought that I should sing a ballad song.

I just love what Nicholas Britell did with 'Moonlight.'

Music is all about creativity.

Songwriting is a big deal to me.

American Odyssey' will be an amazing adventure inside the musical walls of our cities. It's theater, and radio has always been great theater to me.