"Music is the melody whose text is the…" — Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways… — Bjork
• I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many… — Andrea Bocelli
• I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8,… — Bono
• It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal… — Bono
• There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always… — David Bowie
• Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female… — Brandon Boyd
• Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven… — Johannes Brahms
• We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of… — Johannes Brahms
• All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated. — Carter Burwell
• The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears.… — Albert Camus
• The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper. — Pablo Casals
• Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse. — Tracy Chapman

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