"Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make a very simple melody really different. You can also have a complex melody. The more complex it is, the harder it is to sing, and then sometimes it can sound contrived. You could write a melody that would be fine on a saxophone but if you give it to a singer, it can sound raunchy."

-- Donald Fagen

#Writing Quotes #Simple Quotes #Giving Quotes

“You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.”
“If I find a great idea, I work on it at the beginning, then bring in other people to make things work. Actually, I've always been good at getting out of work.”
“Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.”
“I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented seriously on canvas.”
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”

Source : "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.
“In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.6, Vintage
“To a happy war!" Their laughter flowed out into the night and reached into the pass through the Dancing Maidens, where it echoed around the mountains with all the insane glee of an army of pyschopaths.”

Source : Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #2: Blade of Fire”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.
“I just write mechanical things.”

Source : "Barry Zito Visits Athletics Nation". Interview with Tyler Bleszinski, www.athleticsnation.com. March 29, 2005.

You may also like:

Al Jarreau
Singer
Boz Scaggs
Singer-songwriter
Carly Simon
Singer-songwriter
George Duke
Musician
Jeff Baxter
Guitarist
Larry Carlton
Guitarist
Levon Helm
Musician
Phoebe Snow
Singer-songwriter
Walter Becker
Musician