Melody Quotes

587 Melody quotes by 453 unique authors

If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile. — Steven Tyler
I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on… — Frank Zappa
Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can… — Etta James
There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs. — Wayne Coyne
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God. — Quincy Jones
And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed,… — Pete Seeger
The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here,… — Danny Elfman
Melody is the essence of music. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it… — Rabindranath Tagore
I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling, and I have tried to interpret… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel… — Glenn Miller
A melody is not merely something you can hum. — Aaron Copland
We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we… — Art Garfunkel
Funny how a melody sounds like a memory. — Eric Church
Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling. — Waylon Jennings
A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling. — Margaret Wise Brown
I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody… — Buck Owens
Every time I would think about my purpose, the answers seemed to come in sounds. In melodies. In feelings. — David Archuleta
I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies. — John Densmore
Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great… — Charles Spurgeon
Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult. — Kim Gordon
You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody. — Dennis Brown
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical… — Terry Riley
So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me… — Steve Vai
Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those… — Nile Rodgers

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