Melody Quotes

587 quotes by 453 authors

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll
O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me… — Christina Rossetti
The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not… — Joshua L. Liebman
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be… — W. Somerset Maugham
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my… — William Shakespeare
I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then… — Unknown Author
I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them… — Dave Barry
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible… — Jean Genet
The song is ended, but the melody lingers on... — Irving Berlin
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me… — James Nasmyth
There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always… — John Ruskin
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he… — Martin Seligman
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the… — Samuel Johnson
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and… — Michelangelo
I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies. — Lana Del Rey
What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered, a kind of… — Anthony de Mello
Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and… — Porphyry
Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character. — Aristotle
It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a… — Christian B. Anfinsen

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