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183 Melodies quotes by 158 unique authors
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There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.
— Willie Nelson
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My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the…
— Sinead O'Connor
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Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has…
— Liz Phair
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind,…
— Carlos Santana
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
— Barbra Streisand
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I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.
— Steven Tyler
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I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing…
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
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The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with…
— Rob Sheffield
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So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the…
— Steven Millhauser
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
— Tom Waits
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For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects…
— Orson Scott Card
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God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.
— Mitch Albom
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If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of…
— Thomas Mann
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If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when…
— Robert Schumann
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The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that…
— Iris Murdoch
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True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.
— Shusaku Endo
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I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent.…
— Patrick Süskind
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...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write down for strings…
— Michio Kaku
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It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen.…
— Morton Feldman
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When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music. A…
— Cassie Steele
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