Melody Composition Quotes

When I start to write a song, I have the words and I have the melody, and then it's just a matter of making it to the end. I think if I have something that I could identify as a talent, it would be that I can finish a song. I kind of know intuitively where the melody should go.

I want to make great songs.

I put all those synthesizer sounds behind "Decoy" and "Code M.D." A lot of things we write together. A lot of things are his, but they don't have that thing I want on the bottom. I often tell him, I say, "Bobby [Irving], if there's a melody, there's another one somewhere that goes with it."

There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music...I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.

I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].

I've always been a writer who does simplistic, simple melodies. But I think it works.

Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.

The melodies I come up with, they're not normal.

I try to, at least, think very melodically, and my band forces me to think very melodically.

I really hate when I do a great song with great lyrics but my voice just don't fit because of the type of beat I picked.

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

I think Sia is a pretty good reference for me because her way of 'singing and the way she composes the melodies and writes the lyrics is very similar to what I've always done.

I want to make the songs good. I think this is my main focus.

When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and it's really, really hard to write lyrics that actually obey the vowel sounds.

I always begin to compose the melody first.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.