Imagine Eminem writing a play with complex raps and syllables, and melodies flowing in and out. That's what it was like for… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body.… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
I love writing songs with people, which is about really taking risks, throwing yourself over the falls and really seeing what you're… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I have a Bird in spring Which for myself doth sing - The spring decoys. And as the summer nears - And… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone… — Scott Patterson Copy Share Image
Music is the universal language, it evokes an emotion in all of us. That, we can all look at each other and… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
I came up with the "We are explorers," with sort of a counter-melody to [Opetaia Foa'i] melody. And so, it happened so… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has… — Andrew S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters,… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection,… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
I want to sing using a throatsinging style, like for example kargyraa, but at the same time sing it like a normal… — Albert Kuvezin Copy Share Image
It is amazing when you try and write songs without an instrument. It kind of forces the melody to be honed it.… — Graham Colton Copy Share Image
No offence to Hugh MacLennan, but you don't even have to know or understand any deep philosophy that's being espoused, you can… — Sarah Harmer Copy Share Image
I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy… — William Law Copy Share Image
Things inspiring me - good melody, a great bass line, a fabulous voice... by which I mean someone who sounds great, rather… — Al Murray Copy Share Image
Oh all the times I've listened, and all the times I've heard All the melodies I'm missing, and all the magic words,… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
Rachael Sage is a marvelous young artist- and I am a fan!! 'Haunted by You' has a beauty that shines through her… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to… — Julianne Hough Copy Share Image
I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
Now they are a circle, and they vibrate together, they pulsate together. Their hearts are no longer separate, their beats are no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Preparing to improvise is at a level commensurate with mastering the structure in a European classical piece. Another way to define improvisation… — Jimmy Heath Copy Share Image
Most people don't take some things into consideration. When they hear an album, they hear the artist or they hear the lyric… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I used to play the piano, I was pretty decent, so that was the only thing I could hold onto in terms… — Lunice Copy Share Image
Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues,… — Etta James Copy Share Image
When I first came to London I thought there'd be this amazing music scene, but I was quite let down by how… — James Righton Copy Share Image
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The song could start with a riff that I base the song around. Or a chord progression or a melody I have,… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
The only criticism heard with any frequency of Elton John's first American album, 'Elton John,' was that the production was too grandiose.… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
![“I came up with the "We are explorers," with sort of a counter-melody to [Opetaia Foa'i] melody. And so, it happened so organically, that it really, to me, is the most emblematic of our collaboration.” quote by Lin-Manuel Miranda](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fe5/lin-manuel-miranda-2352_collaboration_i-came-up-with-the-we-are-explorers-with_590633.png)
![“I used to play the piano, I was pretty decent, so that was the only thing I could hold onto in terms of coming up with melodies; but at the time I [still] just couldn't, so my early beats were really sample-based.” quote by Lunice](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/00b/lunice-86762_beats_i-used-to-play-the-piano-i-was-pretty-de_1315813.jpg)
