Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
With Rage, we wrote riff rock and had rap vocals, so we didn't really concern ourselves with melody for the most part. — Tim Commerford Copy Share Image
“The melodious song mesmerized me and cloaked my soul in a most liberating embrace I had never known. The emotion enveloped me,… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody. — Jesse Michaels Copy Share Image
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“And of a Sunday swarm the folk Under the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, The sun, the melody,… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt… — Feist Copy Share Image
I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
I remember my father playing me Same Situation when I was a nipper, and saying how nobody since has done melodies as… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Usually it's lyric first, but sometimes it's melody. And I carry a hand-held recorder everywhere I go so I can just hum… — Hal Ketchum Copy Share Image
“All this has been happening around them all the days of their lives though they couldn’t see it, then one day, Prayer… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their… — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share Image
Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a… — Chris Thomas King Copy Share Image
“If you want to kill me then go ahead, but remember the unspoken rule between us. You are mine, Liam. You belong… — J.J. McAvoy Copy Share Image
Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I don't really inject the rock 'n' roll thing, what I take from rock 'n' roll is probably the melodies and the… — Cedric Gervais Copy Share Image
I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes. — Robert Cray Copy Share Image
There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. — George Jones Copy Share Image
Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies. — John Keats Copy Share Image
The melody rolled over her, as cool and sweet as water, as hopeful and lovely as sunrise. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not a lawmaker, but I was thinking that if you have a really loud ring tone, maybe you should be stabbed… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
On 'Black Ben Carson,' I had strict no melody thing. I wanted straight, raw, rugged noise music. — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try… — Yanni Copy Share Image
My beats and my production aren't dark or emo by any means; it's basically the lyrics I think, and the melody sometimes… — Sarah Barthel Copy Share Image
“Who are you? A noise or a melody? Or may be you are a silence! If you are a silence, then you… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Let the music of words and the literature of notes harmonize within you, for in this symphony of expression, we discover the… — Ramona I Copy Share Image
