Melodic Complexity Quotes

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

I love countermelodies, I love hooks and melodies that stick in your head. If I could put 20 melodies in a song and they would all work together, I would.

Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning.

The albums 'Heaven On Earth' and 'Runaway Horses' and 'Live Your Life Be Free' were harking back to when I was a young girl and listening to Californian radio - lush productions, complicated melodies, harmonies like the Beach Boys and the Mamas and Papas. That's what those albums remind me of.

Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.

I would say 'Home' is a lot richer and deeper than my earlier classical.

I try to find very simplistic melodies, which are the hardest ones to create.