Melody Quote by Aaron Copland Download Open image “A melody is not merely something you can hum.” — Aaron Copland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Melody Music
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
“Whatever comes under the heading of fugal form partakes in some way of the nature of a fugue. You already know, I feel sure,… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
“Every symphony, for example, is a sonata for orchestra; every string quartet is a sonata for four strings; every concerto a sonata for a… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!" — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of sub-consciousnessóI wouldnít know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing. — Drake Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment. — Rodney Yee Copy Share Image
