You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
“If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody… — Edgar Allan Poe 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 I'm recording, I usually just mumble and hum a melody and then fill the words in as I go. — Tierra Whack Copy Share Image
Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions. — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned. — Toru Takemitsu Copy Share Image
“Who are you? A noise or a melody? Or may be you are a silence! If you are a silence, then you… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the… — Porphyry Copy Share Image
My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what… — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
All the big pop acts that I've been into over the years - whether it's ABBA or Prince - managed to combine… — Robyn Copy Share Image
I think it's good to have a balance. Everything I write about, it's not something I necessarily might have went through, there's… — Leon Bridges Copy Share Image
Through song you learn, and I think school systems need to learn that. Through the rhythm you can learn better, through melody,… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it… — Avicii Copy Share Image
[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
The film producers have to understand that melody is the base of Indian music - they have to come back to that.… — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
“It is the fire that consumes me; It is an inexplicable love, It is the rain that calms me; It is a… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
Akon is a very talented songwriter to work with. His melodies, they're just insane. It's funny, I think about him a lot… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I just find that with music I've always felt a sort of comfort."Paranoid Android" was the saddest song I'd ever heard in… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
The white music was melodic and pretty, and you had beautiful women's voices like Gogi Grant and even the Andrews Sisters. Then… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of guy who walks around with a notebook writing lyrics. For me, melody and song structure come first… — Cary Brothers Copy Share Image
There is a little bit of a head vs. heart kind of battle that happens sometimes with the song. There's the goose… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
My beats and my production aren't dark or emo by any means; it's basically the lyrics I think, and the melody sometimes… — Sarah Barthel Copy Share Image
'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
The melody rolled over her, as cool and sweet as water, as hopeful and lovely as sunrise. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not a lawmaker, but I was thinking that if you have a really loud ring tone, maybe you should be stabbed… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
On 'Black Ben Carson,' I had strict no melody thing. I wanted straight, raw, rugged noise music. — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try… — Yanni Copy Share Image
The feeling that you want the listener to get, you should get yourself when you first hit that chord, and that melody… — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
Whichever kind of music I was making it was all about the melody anyway. The kind of music I'm making now is… — Jarryd James Copy Share Image
I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work. — Peter Max Copy Share Image
In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair. — Andy Gibb Copy Share Image
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“I am Melody Malone, with ice in my heart and a kiss on my lips. In the city that never sleeps and… — Melody Malone Copy Share Image
“Let the music of words and the literature of notes harmonize within you, for in this symphony of expression, we discover the… — Ramona I Copy Share Image
I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep… — Negash Ali Copy Share Image
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