Corey Taylor Quotes

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. A lot of times I have, and the song wasn't that good, but I would get lost in that melody, and I'd want to do the song.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

Good music is good music.

I wasn't worried about flash or persona... It's all about writing a good, solid song.

It varies from song to song, but melody was always easy for me.

Pop is like a puzzle: to write a perfect pop song, you never know, and there's so much that can happen in a second with a song.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

As long as it's good music, that's what's important.

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.

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

There are a million good tunes.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.