Melody Quotes · Page 9

What I like about Kasabian is that it's melody driven.

— Craig David

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.

— Robert Cray

Melodies are important. I always kind of pride myself on my melodies.

— Lee DeWyze

I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

— Grace Potter

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

— Gordon Waller

I think country has the biggest melodies ever.

— Sean Kingston

I like music that not only has a pop melody to it but is also deeply about something.

— Coy Bowles

Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Paul Lansky

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention…

— Joseph Haydn

I'm always searching for a signature sound and melody that resonates with the film and audience and becomes integral to the film,…

— David Raiklen

Loveing you might be a crime but being yours and no one else's completes my heart missing you is really hard but…

— Courtney Hood

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which…

— James Nasmyth

I don't want to sound like anyone else, I wanted to be in my own creative space and find this river of…

— Thomas Grennan

I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to…

— Eddie Trunk

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

— Slavoj Žižek

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

— Paul Robeson

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives…

— Henry David Thoreau

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 think it's something that really speaks in your head - a very strong melody. But at the same time, if the…

— Mikal Cronin

To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed…

— Iris Murdoch

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

— Patrick Modiano

Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I usually start with a guitar riff or some little pattern of chords, and then I kind of go from there. Usually…

— Butterfly Boucher

Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling…

— William Butler Yeats

“We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and…

— Anonymous

Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle…

— Iron & Wine

I don't really break into too many solos. But I've never been a super-big solo guy anyway. I like to make the…

— Mark Tremonti

Without you hearing a melody or music or anything like that, it would say something to you. So, that's what a song…

— Smokey Robinson

Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting,…

— Donald Fagen

I find it very difficult not to write in any sort of Sudanese style. With Sudanese music, there are very specific things…

— Ahmed Gallab

Tchaikovsky was one of the great melody writers of all time.

— James Newton Howard

“Someone’s looking for a short sharp visit from the Slap Fairy,” said Melody.”

— Simon R. Green

Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.

— Michio Kaku

I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.

— George Harrison

I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.

— Zach Condon

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

— Tiffany Foxx

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on...

— Irving Berlin

There is always a market for a good song and a good melody.

— Richard Carpenter