There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We like songs that are familiar.
All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.
You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.
A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.
There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.
Songs are often character studies.
A song is a lot of things. But, first of all, a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight, makes then somehow easier to say, and it helps them to be remembered.
Every song is like a painting.