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• I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.

  Mike Stoller

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  Tags in Melody, Write

• Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

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• I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.

  Gerry Mulligan

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

  Gerry Mulligan

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• I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

  John Legend

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  Life like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

  Hans Christian Andersen

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• If you’re going to start with melody you’ll need some tympani, I think.

  Gene Krupa

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• A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.

  Al Yankovic

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• I really believe in melody.

  Aulis Sallinen

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• A melody is not merely something you can hum.

  Aaron Copland

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• My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I’m not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

  Paul Simon

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• Music is the melody whose text is the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

  Stephane Mallarme

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• There’s two facets to writing a song. There’s you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there’s the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

  Nuno Bettencourt

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• I always begin to compose the melody first.

  Nobuo Uematsu

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• Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it’s pleasure, but you don’t get wiped out.

  Paul Simon

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• Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

  Burt Bacharach

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