Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record. — Michael W. Smith Copy Share Image
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is… — Jimmy Heath Copy Share Image
I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed… — DJ Ashba Copy Share Image
I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words… — Ken Hensley Copy Share Image
Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody. — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling. — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what… — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the… — Porphyry Copy Share Image
All the big pop acts that I've been into over the years - whether it's ABBA or Prince - managed to combine… — Robyn Copy Share Image
Through song you learn, and I think school systems need to learn that. Through the rhythm you can learn better, through melody,… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it… — Avicii Copy Share Image
I'm glad I had a daughter first because with a boy you have to teach him stuff and it's just a little… — Ray J Copy Share Image
You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent… — Irving Berlin Copy Share Image
“It flowed and swam around her, filling her blood, and if she could have done so, she would have melted into the… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Everyone's [ me, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty] equally involved in all the writing. Normally we'll start with a sample or a… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I don't really have a set-in-stone process or formula. Sometimes the melody is there and I have to chase down the lyrics.… — Kasey Anderson Copy Share Image
If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My mother hums a haunting melody, one that I think she made up. She used to sing it to us when she… — Susan Ee Copy Share Image
I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle.… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
There is a melody in each person.Some are sad, some are happy.Just listen to them and you will find out the persons… — EwshyCrazyness Copy Share Image
“She is. . . she is Bloody Melody and perfect. God created her and then shattered the mold afterward, for the world… — J.J. McAvoy Copy Share Image
A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful… — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it. — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words. — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most… — Francoise Hardy Copy Share Image
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
“The underlying melody via every rock, plant, animal, sky and star, inside the water, from the dirt, through the light: only love… — Melina Sempill Watts Copy Share Image
You should do what we do, stack chips like *Hebrews* Don't let the melody intrigue you (uh-uh) Cause I leave you, I'm… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
What? You don't think he's cute?" "I didn't really notice." "How can you not notice when a guy is cute?" Melody stared… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Mainstream Bollywood music has fallen into some sort of a rut where melody, which was very important 'till the '90s, is out… — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
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