Melody Quotes · Page 14

I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to…

— Manika

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

— Isak Dinesen

She's a melody. That I've tried to forget but I can't. It still follows me. When I wake in the dead of…

— Jamie Cullum

I have tremendous respect for Pakistani artistes, they are very talented, especially where music sense and melody is concerned.

— Kumar Sanu

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

— Kim Gordon

I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just…

— Beth Orton

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians…

— Bradley Joseph

You put down one color and it calls for an answer. You have to look at it like a melody.

— Romare Bearden

The film producers have to understand that melody is the base of Indian music - they have to come back to that.…

— Kumar Sanu

The voice of God whispers in the heart So softly That the soul pauses, Making no noise, And strives for these melodies,…

— Stephen Crane

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the…

— Albert Murray

Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw…

— Petra Haden

Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Melodies and ideas are always on my mind and always coming to me. I'm very thankful for that because if I didn't…

— John Debney

Our heirs, whatever or whoever they may be, will explore space and time to degrees we cannot currently fathom. They will create…

— Clifford A. Pickover

Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's…

— Robert M. Lindner

I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then…

— Kelly Hogan

Wherever inspiration comes from, it's like I'll hear a melody and chords, almost a rough structure of the whole thing [song]. I'll…

— Chris Wyse

And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the…

— Saint Augustine

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word.…

— James A. Garfield

I approach song writing three different ways. One way is where I write the initial melody and lyrics first and then take…

— Manika

What happens a lot with songwriting is that a melody or rhythm or something stays with you like catching a cold. And…

— Thom Yorke

Well, the first thing I do is I try to listen to whatever rapping is already on the track. I listen for…

— Bun B

I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But…

— Scott Avett

I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

— Brett Dennen

As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that's why I can play lots of instruments.

— Jack Garratt

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.

— Zach Condon

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

— Audie Murphy

Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

— Dan Bejar

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

— Paul Twitchell

“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.”

— Criss Jami

I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.

— Hoodie Allen

Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the…

— Burning Spear

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out…

— Carole King

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

— Danny Elfman

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

— Gary Cherone

I don't believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.

— Mick Jagger

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just…

— Kathy Acker