Melody Quote by Aaron Copland

Melody is the essence of music.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

Music is about textures as well as melody.

— Ken Hill

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

— Tom T. Hall

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

— Rokia Traore

Yes, when I come up with ideas on my own, it's almost always a melody, just as often an instrument or bassline as it…

— Caroline Polachek

We're falling into a place where melody is somewhat lacking in music. Everybody feels like, okay, too much melody or too much harmony, and…

— Ne-Yo

Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my…

— Ryan Tedder

The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.

— Ben Folds

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

— Joshua Logan

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the…

— Carlos Santana

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't…

— Akon