Melody Quotes · Page 5

I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.

— Fred Durst

“Music Doesn’t Need Interpreters and Translators”

— Ellen J. Barrier

I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.

— John Legend

“The song is over. But the melody lingers on.”

— Haruki Murakami

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

— Julie Andrews

'Is Qadar' is a beautiful melody that will resonate with people.

— Tulsi Kumar

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

— Aaron Copland

What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.

— Mark Hoppus

“Step one, accept she was a damn boss. Step two, hide all the knives, guns, and maybe the pillows, too.”

— J.J. McAvoy

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever…

— Sun Tzu

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the…

— Johannes Brahms

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering…

— Britney Spears

My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious…

— Sinead O'Connor

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

— Paul Lansky

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every…

— Richard Wagner

That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

— Paul Brunton

I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom or the words that might…

— Paul Robeson

Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous…

— Slavoj Žižek

There are a lot of unspoken things with me and Nimai [Larson]. We're very yin and yang, neither one of us really…

— Taraka Larson

I put in the sounds of instruments such as the guitar and piano, which everybody hears often, and tried to go with…

— Seungri

Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you…

— Miles Davis

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing…

— Bjork

There are choirs singing in your head. If you listen, you will hear the music. It is the song of angels. Pay…

— Neale Donald Walsch

The doctor used to tell me that every person about to die becomes a music box playing the melody that best describes…

— Patrick Modiano

Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto…

— Anonymous

There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or…

— Pete Seeger

Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to…

— Pete Seeger

Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works…

— Ben Okri

I think the emotion that song carries makes it good. Because you have to produce around something - an emotional attachment and…

— The-Dream

It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected…

— Leopold Stokowski

Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise…

— Walter Savage Landor

I think if Unchained Melody does what I think it can do, I think there is an audience out there that would…

— Barry Manilow

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

— Willie Nelson

“Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.”

— A.A. Patawaran

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

— Gerry Mulligan

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

— Tom Waits

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

— Socrates

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Composing a melody or a western song is easier than composing a commercial number.

— Mani Sharma

Rap, for me, I go at any tempo and any sound of beat and incorporate melody as well.

— Santan Dave