After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.
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.
The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.
After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.
we're all freaks sometimes, Melody," he replied. "You're just... well, better at it than most.
True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.
The limbo of life is like a song, a melody that comes around occasionally but that sticks in your head and never goes away.
Her name was Melody, and she was like a song. A song on mute—because she was mute. Music to my heart.
Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.
If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.
The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.
