Adam Rich Quotes

Breaking Benjamin, talk about songwriting, I mean, some of the greatest songwriters of the modern era. And, obviously, it's a little heavier.

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

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

From my early training days, I am an avid listener of heavy music which is laced with proper diction and effective use of grammar of music.

The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.

Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.

From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to be rock n' roll and have a rock n' roll attitude. I was fighting my nature by trying to play really hard and sing really hard. But at a certain point, I realized that I loved syrupy pop music with tons of harmony.

For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.

I'm used to making songs; that's how I learned to make music. My structures will always be more like pop songs than dance tracks.

We've never been shy to admit that Metallica is a huge influence in our lives and on our music.

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

I couldn't write an AC/DC song. I don't know how to do that.

I don't really focus on if what I'm writing is pop or not. I just write music and then I try to figure out how to arrange the things that I write.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.