Melody Quotes · Page 7

I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.

— Fred Durst

“Music Doesn’t Need Interpreters and Translators”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour A thousand melodies unheard before.

— Samuel Rogers

“In the symphony of existence, our actions compose the melody of our legacy.”

— Carlos Wallace

The world likes trap and EDM unless it's a fire melody.

— Ari Lennox

It's his name I keep on singing with an unknown melody each time no one's around.

— KookieEmm

No harmony. No melody. No rhythm. No bullshit.

— Phill Niblock

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings…

— Eddie Vedder

A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful…

— Greta Salpeter

I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted…

— Jarryd James

If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley…

— Steven Tyler

Please respect this I'll just let this music lead the way. Melody come, set me free I'm taking me away.

— Kaskade

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

— Drake

There are some ideas that I know I have to try out before I find the right sound, before I find the…

— Trentemøller

I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from…

— Miles Davis

I'm not a one-stop music shop with jazz improv in aisle 3 and country and western in aisle 4. I have a…

— Charlie Clouser

The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese…

— Tom Waits

I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes,…

— David Byrne

When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off…

— Verite

“Well, this is how I see it - every tune tells a tale, nearly always a sad one. When I turn the…

— Andrés Neuman

I work in bits and pieces. When I'm touring it's difficult. After touring, when I have space and time, it's a process,…

— Anna Ternheim

I think I was annoyed going through the '90s just as a guy who loves music. There wasn't a lot of music…

— Michael Buble

I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft…

— Linda Ronstadt

It was a matter of not seeing the woods for the trees. Glorious songs have been in Ireland forever, but a lot…

— Phil Coulter

For me, the tabletop is an easy way to eliminate the possibilities of chords, modes, melodies, and harmonies. It kind of confines…

— Kevin Drumm

Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach…

— W. Somerset Maugham

In a basic music way, my sense of melody and my style of songwriting and production carry the same thought process into…

— Sophie

There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift…

— Enya

I have a notebook that I take with me everywhere. I free-write in it when there are situations that I know I…

— Agent M

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook…

— Anonymous

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

— Burt Bacharach

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.

— William S. Burroughs

With Audioslave, it's all about melody and chord progressions.

— Tim Commerford

I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.

— Zooey Deschanel

“Life is a living flute, yoga is the art of creating melody and rhythm in it.”

— Amit Ray

Love is the key-note of the universe-- The theme, the melody.

— Henry Abbey

Your face is like a melody. And memories are movies:)

— Jade