Melody Quotes

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!

To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.

There come to one's soul heavenly thoughts as he joins in heavenly expressions coupled with heavenly melody.

You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know...

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

Every heart has its own melody.

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment.

When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming out it can build into something special.

One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape.

And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.

Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.

To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.

You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.

My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.

No harmony. No melody. No rhythm. No bullshit.

We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

There's always a melody running around in my mind and my brain; and I'm really thankful for it.

In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.

The night comes stealing o'er me, And clouds are on the sea; While the wavelets rustle before me With a mystical melody.

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.