Melody Quotes · Page 6

God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.

— Drake

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”

— Amit Kalantri

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps...

— Amedeo Modigliani

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

— Wayne Coyne

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

— Dennis Brown

“Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine.”

— Cassandra Clare

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

— Drake Bell

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that…

— Akon

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost,…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He…

— Charles Spurgeon

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out…

— Phil Collins

True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of…

— Shusaku Endo

I get mad about something, and then I have this melody in my head, and then afterwards, the lyrics come.

— Alice Merton

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea…

— Billy Bob Thornton

All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the…

— Neil Diamond

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would…

— Marvin Hamlisch

I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert…

— Gian Carlo Menotti

If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream…

— William Christopher Handy

Maybe I'm not giving people in the audience enough credit for actually thinking about what they're singing, but it's awesome when a…

— Sarah Harmer

I was probably five years old or four years and I would listen to "White Christmas," and I just thought it was…

— Michael Buble

I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots…

— Skylar Grey

I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I…

— Tom T. Hall

A good theme - like the 'Pink Panther' or 'Baby Elephant Walk' - can work all the way through the picture, which…

— Henry Mancini

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian…

— A. R. Rahman

Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a…

— Edward Dowden

HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and…

— Ambrose Bierce

For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out…

— Plato

Vocals are not central to what I do, and I've never liked singing live. I've always been more inspired by rhythm, texture,…

— Laurel Halo

I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed.…

— Charles McPherson

Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only…

— Jerry Spinelli

Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

— Colin Meloy

Melody wins every time. Melody is always gonna win.

— Denzel Curry

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

— Pablo Casals

'Is Qadar' is a beautiful melody that will resonate with people.

— Tulsi Kumar

“The song is over. But the melody lingers on.”

— Haruki Murakami

I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.

— John Legend

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

— Julie Andrews

I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.

— Keren Woodward