Melody is the essence of music.

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I feel electronica is spoiling the essence of music.

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music.…

— Chris Robinson

To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing.

— Ry Cooder

“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

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

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

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

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

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

— Drake

“The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart