“It is a melody to me. You are a song, Lenore, harmony and discord. I am learning to sing it.” — Kat Dunn Copy Share Image
Blue grass was the outgrowth of Irish music. As a matter of fact a lot the tunes, a lot of the melodies… — Keith Getty Copy Share Image
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb! — MC Lars Copy Share Image
As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard. — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain Like holy water falls upon the plain, 'Tis sweet to gaze upon the… — Francis Ledwidge Copy Share Image
Music allows a person to express their deepest thoughts, thoughts that cannot be expressed with just words. I am often asked how… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say.… — Leon Bridges Copy Share Image
By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and… — Glenn Miller Copy Share Image
I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of… — Teena Marie Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the game itself is pretty much a melody and I am there to provide the lyrics. You want… — Al Michaels Copy Share Image
I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I feel connected to every song on this record [ 'Modern Vampires Of The City' ], but yeah I think there's something… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I've tended to write lyrics alone. The emotion of the melody comes first. But what stimulates us are usually these dreamy minor… — Stella Mozgawa Copy Share Image
To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and… — Alfred Delp Copy Share Image
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that. — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
I have a 'Play The Melody' philosophy. It means don't over arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody-and do it… — Jackie Gleason Copy Share Image
I'll generally always get melody first and then I'll go in and try and think of a title and lyrics generally come… — Guy Sebastian Copy Share Image
Every time I would think about my purpose, the answers seemed to come in sounds. In melodies. In feelings. — David Archuleta Copy Share Image
A theme can be a little melody, it can be a couple of notes. It can underscore and add subtext. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip… — Liberace Copy Share Image
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The one thing about songwriting that's been consistent is that I do it for the love of a good melody. — Kim Shattuck Copy Share Image
I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my… — Enya Copy Share Image
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language,… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7.… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
When I'm writing with John Leventhal, the music that he's written mostly comes first. And I'll write the lyrics and the melody. — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image