Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
Steven Tyler
I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.
Sharon Van Etten
A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.
Gordon Waller
For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
Zakk Wylde
It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something... →
Michael Bolton
We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
Johannes Brahms
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
Gian Carlo Menotti
Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
Mika
As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.
Alanis Morissette
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
Gerry Mulligan