Melody Quotes · Page 10

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

— Gordon Waller

I think country has the biggest melodies ever.

— Sean Kingston

I like music that not only has a pop melody to it but is also deeply about something.

— Coy Bowles

“what summits would I not reach if my own life made the subject of the melody.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

What I like about Kasabian is that it's melody driven.

— Craig David

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.

— Robert Cray

Melodies are important. I always kind of pride myself on my melodies.

— Lee DeWyze

I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.

— Zach Condon

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

Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful…

— Dan Fogelberg

To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly…

— Isak Dinesen

I have tremendous respect for Pakistani artistes, they are very talented, especially where music sense and melody is concerned.

— Kumar Sanu

She's a melody. That I've tried to forget but I can't. It still follows me. When I wake in the dead of…

— Jamie Cullum

I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just…

— Beth Orton

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

— Kim Gordon

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians…

— Bradley Joseph

I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of…

— Alex Turner

He made a sound of frustation, caught at her hand, brought it to his chest, and pressed it flat over his heart.…

— Cassandra Clare

In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes…

— Jennifer Warnes

While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I'm not a haiku artist, but I wanted to use the phrase 5, 7, 5 in the melody that flows over time.…

— Terry Bozzio

This is wine," Ghoolion said solemnly. "Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine…

— Walter Moers

We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn —…

— William Mackergo Taylor

When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain Like holy water falls upon the plain, 'Tis sweet to gaze upon the…

— Francis Ledwidge

The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which…

— Bayard Taylor

Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things…

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from…

— Ernst Haas

When I see a movie, the music often gets in the way for me. It's something that, say, for myself and Claire,…

— Stuart A. Staples

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever…

— Sun Tzu

I could always hold a melody, but I was never like, I'm going to be a singer. So I'm able to use…

— Kid Ink

I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it…

— Bob Dylan

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on...

— Irving Berlin

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

— Tiffany Foxx

There is always a market for a good song and a good melody.

— Richard Carpenter

Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.

— Henry David Thoreau

Tchaikovsky was one of the great melody writers of all time.

— James Newton Howard

“Someone’s looking for a short sharp visit from the Slap Fairy,” said Melody.”

— Simon R. Green

I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.

— George Harrison

Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.

— Michio Kaku