I feel like guitar explains a lot. You can just listen to a guitar without any lyrics over it; you can just feel what kind of track it is. If it's pain... you can feel it. It sets the mood.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
We love music, and when it's good we flip. And we want to get to the core of why it's good.
There is always space for good music.
I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.
It's such a weird process, songwriting, because you just have to feel it. There's no right or wrong melody or lyric.
Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
The world I was born into was one filled with music.
When words leave off, music begins.
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.
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
I like having big hooks and big records and sing-a-longs.
If I don't feel it when I'm sitting there, if it doesn't give me the feeling I got when I heard 'Pony' or 'So Anxious' or 'In Those Jeans,' I scrap it.
I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there.
The great thing about both Indian and Western pop music is that they're fast and have a beat.
Songs come to me and I hear them. At least in part, they are very complete; I hear the whole chorus, including the drum pattern, the base, the countermelody, the basic harmonic structure and the main thrust of the lyric.
There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
In music, silence is more important than sound.
Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Without music, life would be a blank to me.
I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. It's kind of like a rock ballad. There's a lot of guitars and drums in it.
