quotes about Melody
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The melody is generally what the piece is all about.
-- Aaron Copland -
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.
-- Adam Rich -
They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.
-- Audie Murphy -
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The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on.
-- Bantu HolomisaSource : "Quotes from Nelson Mandela's state funeral", www.foxnews.com. December 15, 2013.
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All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
-- Carter Burwell -
Every heart has its own melody.
-- Cassandra ClareSource : Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.187, Simon and Schuster
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What makes a great song - you dont put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.
-- Diane Warren -
Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.
-- Eric ChurchSource : Song: Springsteen, Album: Chief, 2011
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In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
-- Franz Liszt -
I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.
-- Fred Durst -
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I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.
-- Freddie Mercury -
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
-- Gerry Mulligan -
A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.
-- Gordon Waller -
When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.
-- Jason Mraz -
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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
-- Johannes Brahms -
There is no music in a “rest†that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.
-- John Ruskin -
Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.
-- Lisa McMann -
A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.
-- Margaret Wise Brown -
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The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.
-- Merle HaggardSource : FaceBook post by Merle Haggard from Nov 04, 2011
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Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.
-- Michael W. Smith -
I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.
-- Michel Legrand -
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I always begin to compose the melody first.
-- Nobuo Uematsu -
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
-- Pablo Casals -
I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
-- Patrick Carney -
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I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom
-- Paul RobesonSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Good melody is never out of fashion
-- Robert BridgesSource : Robert Bridges (1927). “Collected Essays, Papers, Etc”, Georg Olms Verlag
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I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.
-- Robert Cray -
I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.
-- Ryan Tedder -
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Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour A thousand melodies unheard before.
-- Samuel Rogers -
I think country has the biggest melodies ever.
-- Sean KingstonSource : "Sean Kingston on writing for Rihanna, the Kanye-Taylor Swift incident, and more: A Music Mix Q&A". Interview with Joseph Brannigan Lynch, ew.com. September 24, 2009.
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One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.
-- Shawn Colvin -
Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
-- Steven Tyler -
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I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.
-- Tom Araya -
Melody is the essence of music.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartSource : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1926). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist Revealed in His Own Words”, p.7, Courier Corporation
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I would say that we like to disguise our heartbreaks with happier melodies.
-- Aino JawoSource : "Icona Pop's Aino Jawo on their new album, 'This Is... Icona Pop'". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.
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If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch onto, that's great.
-- Alexis TaylorSource : "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.
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There's a big difference between the Arabic and Western scales. One uses quarter tone system and one doesn't. So in order for me to compose real Arabic scale melodies, I would need an Arabic keyboard, and I don't have one. So I had to compose Arabesque melodies.
-- Ayshay -
I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.
-- Hoodie Allen -
I really tried to go for that sound of the '60s pop melodies but I'm living in the present so that makes it contemporary. I like to pretend I'm outside of myself and that is what the recordings and the process helped me to do.
-- Matt Costa -
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I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.
-- Nina Nesbitt -
I love melodies so it's usually where I start.
-- Sydney Sierota -
Even if I have a quite strong melody, there are so many possibilities and so many directions that you can take the music.
-- Trentemøller -
Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.
-- William Beckett -
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While the business of "collecting" lyrics and melodies happens all the time, when it's time to corral them all into something, I have to be in a good mood, ready and willing to work.
-- Wooden Wand -
I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.
-- Beth OrtonSource : Source: www.believermag.com
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I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level
-- Paul Taylor -
With a good melody... music gets me through everything.
-- Drake BellSource : "Mr. Karaoke". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2006.
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A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.
-- I. L. Peretz -
Inside the silence is a melody.
-- Joe WalshSource : Song: The Radio Song, Album: Got Any Gum?
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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.
-- Zach Condon -
Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.
-- Zach Condon -