It's sort of cheesy to introduce that to the drums - those dings and dongs and bell sounds. That's definitely one of the reasons people are like 'oh yeah, they sound like Tom Waits, with those trashcan drums. ' But at the same time, it sounds so good! And it introduces this. . . I mean, it's not tuned, but somehow it adds this extra layer of melodic texture.
I love playing the melodic stuff. I love adding textures and colors.
Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.
Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.
She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again.
It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value.
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
You can only write so many pop songs before they all sound the same. I got to a point where something overtly melodic and straightforward sounded sort of cheesy to me. Pop songs seemed too manufactured.
Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
Chance the Rapper: if you listen to his narrative and the subject matter he covers in his music, you can see that he's strong, courageous and shows vulnerability. He asks some very poignant questions in his music and is still very melodic. The harmony and the melody of the music allows you to also come in closer.
Sometimes I can listen to music - sometimes there's no choice, especially if I'm out writing at a coffee place. But sometimes it's too distracting. If I'm listening to something I really love - I have to stop and give everything over to it. I'm listening to its structures, its melodic lines, the bass. It takes up too much of my head - in a good way.
But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.
It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.
Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind, part of the 20th-century folk-song tradition in the sense that they are popular music which has been spread by oral tradition (for many must have sung a Gershwin song without having any idea who wrote it).
The sounds of anger are not melodic.
I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.
It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.
My music has always been strong in melodic content.
I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
