Melodic Hooks Quotes

I'm a huge Weezer fan, and 'Pinkerton' is just a crazy, crazy neurotic album.

Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.

With Rage, we wrote riff rock and had rap vocals, so we didn't really concern ourselves with melody for the most part.

I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.

I think if you go to 'Strength of the World,' a song like that, the chorus isn't that great, but you go into the bridge and other things and the catchier parts and the better melodies we were really focused on.

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

I believe very strongly in having melodic hooks, whether they're short or intricate, that you really remember in a movie.

What's the essence of the Go-Go's? Great melodies, guitar hooks, driving drums. All of that.

I've tried writing darker, more serious songs, but they don't go anywhere. Everything revolves around the chorus for me.

We'd lie on the floor, turn the lights out, put two speakers on either side of our ears, and try to blow our minds with music. I know that I want to make a record that does that yet a record that, if it was played on the radio at twelve in the afternoon, the guy making the wall - the guy cleaning the motorway - he's got a melody to hang on.

We Can't Stop' has so many different vibes to it. She sounds country; the beat has these live, knocking drums; and then it has these pop melodies. It's a feel-good record.

I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.

I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres. ... I like real artists, that write their own material and are great performers.

We're basically a rock band - guitar, bass, drums and vocals. But we take it further than that. We can be rotten, dirty, and heavy as anyone, but at the same time, we've got a lot of melody.

I got really sick of playing just, like, 'Bop-bop-bop-bada-bop-bop-bada-rapa-pah.' Just playing that 190-beats-per-minute punk-rock songs, I didn't feel it anymore. And I always loved melody - when you looked back on those early records, there's always a hook buried in there somewhere.