Melody Quotes

587 Melody quotes by 453 unique authors

The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know.... — Khalil Gibran
Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on… — Agnes Obel
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to… — Edward Weston
Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is… — Reuben Fine
A pretty girl is like a melody. That haunts you night and day. — Irving Berlin
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true… — Annie Dillard
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
It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not It just means that you're in sync with yourself. And whatever… — Harry Nilsson
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would… — Carly Simon
I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is...The arrangements were mine. They were little… — Linda Ronstadt
I've just really been into melody and lyrics and songwriting. Writing a rap, to me, is easy. I could write a rap like that. But… — Kid Rock
You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent is only a… — Irving Berlin
People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them,… — Freddie Mercury
Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make… — Donald Fagen
Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta have a throbbing… — Dan Bern
The secret of a great melody is a secret. — Dave Brubeck
Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely… — Jimmy Webb
Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt… — Conor Oberst
Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes. — Jack Black
I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same notes… — Jerry Spinelli

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