Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

“The teacher can only provide the lessons, but the student ultimately decides what to learn.”

— Bryant McGill

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

— Ken Keyes Jr

Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van…

— Conor Oberst

A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment.

— Rodney Yee

My plea therefore is this: Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with our music…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell…

— Kiera Cass

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

— Drake

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I…

— M. Ward

I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried and tried,…

— Brian Wilson

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

— Geddy Lee

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains…

— James A. Garfield

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

— Washington Irving

The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical…

— Richard Baxter

If you're going to start with melody you'll need some tympani, I think.

— Gene Krupa