Melodic Quotes

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Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected… — Jimmy Reid
While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason… — Trevor Rabin
For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played… — Dweezil Zappa
Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And… — Elvis Costello
I'm a heaven sent instrument. My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental. That's why I'm instrumental, vibrations is what I'm… — Kanye West
We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you… — Fred Frith
You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth. — Kristin Hersh
I like clever songs. I like songs that make people think and I try to have substance in all my records, even with 'Sweet Dreams'… — Rico Love
To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes'… — Geoff Downes
Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so… — David Abram
What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise me, is his… — Greil Marcus
I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic… — John Frusciante
I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning.… — Ken Hensley
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I… — Charlie Parker
Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that… — Twyla Tharp
I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums. — Robbie Williams
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked,… — Anne Rice
Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass… — Julia Glass
Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten seconds later Curran… — Ilona Andrews
A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they went. One of… — Jim Butcher

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