Melody Quotes

I applied for a job on 'Melody Maker' once.

— Nick Hornby

As far as the music goes, I like melody.

— Dickey Betts

The secret of a great melody is a secret.

— Dave Brubeck

I really love things with melody.

— Norah Jones

I'm all about the melody.

— Craig David

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

— Eric Church

I love to explore melody.

— Ludovico Einaudi

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

— Pete Seeger

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

— Erich Bergen

Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

— Michael Jackson

Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

— Rumi

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state

— Stephan Jenkins

“Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine.”

— Cassandra Clare

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

— Dennis Brown

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

— Drake

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps...

— Amedeo Modigliani

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into…

— Colin Greenwood

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

— David B. Haight

I am not a rock producer. I don't see that. I once turned down Guns N' Roses. I don't like shouting. I'm…

— Steve Lillywhite

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

— Anonymous

“When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The power of music…

— Anthony Liccione

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

But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

— Reba McEntire

Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists…

— Robyn

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even…

— Steven Bochco

Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to…

— Nadia Ali

I usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in…

— Leona Lewis

Harmony is the third element of music, after melody and rhythm, and also the one which requires the most study to actually…

— Chilly Gonzales

Remixes come very quickly, because you already have the melody and the vocals. I have a great passion for music, so it…

— Tiesto

Through song you learn, and I think school systems need to learn that. Through the rhythm you can learn better, through melody,…

— Steven Tyler

I think it's good to have a balance. Everything I write about, it's not something I necessarily might have went through, there's…

— Leon Bridges

In a basic music way, my sense of melody and my style of songwriting and production carry the same thought process into…

— Sophie

Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach…

— W. Somerset Maugham

For me, the tabletop is an easy way to eliminate the possibilities of chords, modes, melodies, and harmonies. It kind of confines…

— Kevin Drumm

It was a matter of not seeing the woods for the trees. Glorious songs have been in Ireland forever, but a lot…

— Phil Coulter

I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft…

— Linda Ronstadt

Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and…

— Plotinus

For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

People can get too heavy and it's just about being heavy, which means there isn't a whole lot of art in that;…

— Jason C. Miller