Melody Quotes · Page 8

The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.

— Ben Folds

And you could see the melody that's been calling out your wrongs.

— Mayday Parade

It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.

— Avicii

I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom

— Paul Robeson

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

— Anonymous

“A poem shouldn't just give melody; it should give meaning.”

— Amit Kalantri

For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

— Zakk Wylde

He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.

— Melissa de la Cruz

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is…

— Jimmy Heath

I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed…

— DJ Ashba

Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody.

— Ludwig Goransson

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words…

— Ken Hensley

A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.

— Margaret Wise Brown

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed…

— Dave Barry

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

— Michael W. Smith

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

I'm a lot more sensitive about music, I think, than most other guys in this particular side of the business. Most of…

— Frankie Knuckles

I'm inspired to write songs in many different ways - it can come from a melody, a word or phrase or something…

— Chris de Burgh

I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions;…

— Aristotle

I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play…

— Nikki Sixx

I just recorded in studios, you know, people pressed the buttons for me. So I just started recording the bass lines and…

— Petra Haden

Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I…

— Julia Cameron

I'm working with a producer, Scott Jacoby, who co-wrote "Trouble" off No Beginning No End. Without giving away too much, it's a…

— Jose James

I really admire songwriters or any kind of writer, painter or artist that says, "I'm going to get up at 8 o'clock…

— Langhorne Slim

I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi's apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good…

— Ahmet Ertegun

People can get too heavy and it's just about being heavy, which means there isn't a whole lot of art in that;…

— Jason C. Miller

Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and…

— Plotinus

For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I think if Unchained Melody does what I think it can do, I think there is an audience out there that would…

— Barry Manilow

...tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected…

— Leopold Stokowski

I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.

— Ryan Tedder

Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine. - James Carstairs

— Cassandra Clare

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

— I. L. Peretz

I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.

— R. Kelly

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

— Steven Tyler

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

— Adam Duritz

I love melodies so it's usually where I start.

— Sydney Sierota

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

— Tom T. Hall