I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my… — Enya Copy Share Image
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language,… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7.… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
Melodies and ideas are always on my mind and always coming to me. I'm very thankful for that because if I didn't… — John Debney Copy Share Image
Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's… — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
I find I'm not one of these composers that are, you know, walking along a beach or walking on the mountainside in… — Enya Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist;… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
The voice of God whispers in the heart So softly That the soul pauses, Making no noise, And strives for these melodies,… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I think on the first album, my aim was to write a good song and have a good melody, and I wanted… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've also learned to only write songs and melodies that really work for my voice and that I won't have issues doing… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
“The next morning I awoke and saw the morning sun peeking through my open window. The sound of wind chimes murmured their… — Gary D. Conrad Copy Share Image
My background is Protestant so I benefited from the great Bible teaching that was provided there... I did love the more culturally… — Keith Getty Copy Share Image
Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent… — Irving Berlin Copy Share Image
Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I'm writing with John Leventhal, the music that he's written mostly comes first. And I'll write the lyrics and the melody. — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
I don't want to write melodies anymore. I can only write really simple, dumb caveman melodies. — Derek E. Miller Copy Share Image
The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
When the songs of your heart start singing, you should listen...for its harmony will bring you happiness and the melody is the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
If love is music in its purest form, then you are the notes on the page and the melody in my heart. — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
There was a time when melody was the most important feature in any song. But with time, music underwent a major transition. — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Van Heusen understood Sinatra's style of singing; Sinatra understood Van Heusen's concept of melody. — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
“Every page of a great novel should be crafted like a beautiful melody, to linger on long after the music stops playing.” — Johnny Flora Copy Share Image
The thing you got to realize what we doing is not a trend. We got the gift of melody. We gonna bring… — Nsync Copy Share Image
Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
