I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then… — Kelly Hogan Copy Share Image
I was a very romantic, overly dramatic young lady, which served me well as a songwriter. Especially as someone who had to… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds. — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Seek to make life henceforth a consecrated thing; that so, when the sunset is nearing, with its murky vapors and lowering skies,… — John Ross Macduff Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be expressive on my instrument and conduct as I'm improvising. So I'm conducting with the melodies and the rhythms… — Joe Lovano Copy Share Image
After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and… — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain Like holy water falls upon the plain, 'Tis sweet to gaze upon the… — Francis Ledwidge Copy Share Image
Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing… — Nicky Ryan Copy Share Image
A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
“When Magnus looked at Imasu, he saw Imasu had dropped his head into his hands. "Er," Magnus said. "Are you quite all… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody,… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.… — Charlotte Eriksson 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… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and… — Ray Stevens Copy Share Image
Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is… — Alison Krauss Copy Share Image
