Melody Quotes · Page 2

I think you can do a lot with lyrics and melody.

— Alison Sudol

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

— Rokia Traore

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

— Gordon Waller

I think country has the biggest melodies ever.

— Sean Kingston

I really believe in melody.

— Aulis Sallinen

My style is simple. It is out and out melody.

— Kumar Sanu

“Music is the fastest motivator in the world.”

— Amit Kalantri

Ay, I can be your melody.

— Iyaz

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

— Erich Bergen

Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

— Rumi

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state

— Stephan Jenkins

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

— Michel Legrand

“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies.

— Darren Rowse

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

— Joshua Logan

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because…

— David Guetta

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even…

— Steven Bochco

Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists…

— Robyn

Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.

— Charles R. Swindoll

But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

— Reba McEntire

I'm glad I had a daughter first because with a boy you have to teach him stuff and it's just a little…

— Ray J

“When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The power of music…

— Anthony Liccione

My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what…

— Alan Hovhaness

Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it…

— Avicii

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always…

— Albert Camus

For me, the tabletop is an easy way to eliminate the possibilities of chords, modes, melodies, and harmonies. It kind of confines…

— Kevin Drumm

I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft…

— Linda Ronstadt

Music is given of God to further his purposes. Sweet melodies mellow the souls of men and help prepare them for the…

— Bruce R. McConkie

I love the melody of an unknown language, the strange food, all the surprises of a strange town, and my own impatience…

— Elsa Triolet

I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics,…

— Rod Stewart

I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the…

— Jonathan Meiburg

HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and…

— Ambrose Bierce

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian…

— A. R. Rahman

For my 21st birthday, I think my mother wanted to give me a watch, or something, you know, some kind of traditional…

— Chrissie Hynde

Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass…

— Paul Simon

Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto…

— Anonymous

There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or…

— Pete Seeger

Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to…

— Pete Seeger

One of the best records I’ve ever heard. Seriously, maybe top 20 all-time… I think if Rich Mullins had been given more…

— Todd Agnew