Melody Quotes · Page 5

I can be your melody a girl I could write you a symphony.

— Iyaz

It's the melody within the heart that helps us to endure.

— John McLeod

It varies from song to song, but melody was always easy for me.

— Rodney Crowell

I'm not a grime act, I'm not a rapper, nor am I melody man. I just make music.

— Santan Dave

“Music is a melody of words that gets into your soul”

— Fiona MacKie

I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.

— Bryan Greenberg

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Joshua Logan

I really liked the Sex Pistols when they came out and I thought they had a lot of melody.

— Kim Shattuck

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

— Utada Hikaru

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

— Michel Legrand

Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense…

— Chuck Mangione

A great song for me is when I hear it and it's contagious. The lyrics and the melody, if grows on you…

— Easton Corbin

“The limbo of life is like a song, a melody that comes around occasionally but that sticks in your head and never…

— Leigh Hershkovich

Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words…

— Glenn Danzig

Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies…

— Dwight Yoakam

It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a…

— Jodi Picoult

The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest…

— Gilbert Parker

The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin…

— Andrew Bird

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the…

— Kenny G

I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about. I remember reading about how the decline of…

— Billy Joel

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some…

— George Clinton

We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

For the first records I really never thought about anything other than the song itself. I thought that this was what the…

— Marissa Nadler

Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never…

— John Clare

In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come…

— John Ruskin

My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love.…

— Khalil Gibran

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in…

— Annie Dillard

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

— Chrissie Hynde

...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write…

— Michio Kaku

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

— Darren Rowse

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

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

— Alan Menken

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

— Michel Legrand

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

— Stephan Jenkins

Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

— Michael Jackson

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

— Rumi

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

— Erich Bergen