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I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the… — Tom T. Hall
What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess I'm quite conservative… — Bjork
Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong?… — Pete Seeger
A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies… — Sheryl Crow
In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play… — Michio Kaku
Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies. — Darren Rowse
Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. — Squarepusher
Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the… — George Jones
So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the… — Lionel Richie
I remember my father playing me Same Situation when I was a nipper, and saying how nobody since has done melodies as well as Joni… — Laura Marling
When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was… — Lana Del Rey
Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a… — Thom Yorke
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and… — Paul Robeson
My partner sometimes liked to go into the studio and improvise voice things just for fun. When I returned from England I transcribed one of… — Meredith Monk
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be… — Maureen Forrester
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. — Gary Cherone
Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged. — Maya Angelou
Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I think my greatest… — Jimmy Page
I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real… — Antonin Dvorak
Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where… — Walter Savage Landor
...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking going… — Robben Ford
If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on… — William Christopher Handy
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical… — Bela Bartok
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds… — Plotinus

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