Melody Quotes · Page 10

I love melodies so it's usually where I start.

— Sydney Sierota

you are a beautiful mess, you are the melody…

— William P. Young

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

— Tom T. Hall

I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.

— Ryan Tedder

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

— I. L. Peretz

I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.

— R. Kelly

Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine. - James Carstairs

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Steven Tyler

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

— David B. Haight

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

— Colin Greenwood

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

Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.

— Nikki Sixx

When the uniqueness of a place sings to us like a melody, then we will know, at last, what it means to…

— Paul Gruchow

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

— Anthony Liccione

Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just…

— Andrew Bird

If I play the melody, even if I play it in an abstract manner, it's instantly recognizable. Even when I was studying…

— Stefon Harris

I put in the sounds of instruments such as the guitar and piano, which everybody hears often, and tried to go with…

— Seungri

Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you…

— Miles Davis

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing…

— Bjork

There are choirs singing in your head. If you listen, you will hear the music. It is the song of angels. Pay…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I'm trying to be expressive on my instrument and conduct as I'm improvising. So I'm conducting with the melodies and the rhythms…

— Joe Lovano

I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the…

— Jonathan Meiburg

I've always thought that I'm not really a guitar player, but I just practised so much that I developed into a kind…

— Ritchie Blackmore

I feel like I'm really accomplishing something with harmony and melody. Ultimately, again, I'm not a singer, some people can sing with…

— Cee Lo Green

I think that in a certain sense, we're concerned about the same issues. How do you accent the progressive, the prophetic, those…

— Cornel West

What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered,…

— Anthony de Mello

“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.…

— Charlotte Eriksson

This is our most complete record by far. A Hundred Million Suns sounds like the marriage of everything we learned from the…

— Gary Lightbody

In the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my…

— Iggy Pop

What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess…

— Bjork

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

— Adam Duritz

I've forgotten many things, but I'll never forget a melody.

— Michael Jackson

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

— William Beckett

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

— Enya

I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.

— Mike Stoller

You can't under-estimate the power of uplifting melody and words.

— Judith Durham

It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody.

— Manika

Friendship is the melody and fragrance of life. ~

— Ritu Ghatourey