Melody Quotes

587 Melody quotes by 453 unique authors

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the… — Nuno Bettencourt
It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs. — Wes Borland
Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other… — George Clinton
When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at… — David Amram
I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs. — Patrick Carney
I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen… — Eugene Chadbourne
One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't. — Shawn Colvin
Melodies are important. I always kind of pride myself on my melodies. — Lee DeWyze
I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with… — Art Garfunkel
In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And… — Danny Elfman
From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down… — Marvin Hamlisch
I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts. — Frank Iero
Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody.… — Carole King
The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you propose the movie… — Emir Kusturica
In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and… — Bruno Mars
I really believe in melody. — Aulis Sallinen
It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new… — Anna Quindlen
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance… — Aberjhani
Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and sound… — J. Robbins
The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can… — William Shakespeare
HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog… — Ambrose Bierce
Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air… — Edgar Allan Poe
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two… — Charles Kingsley
The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang. — Heinrich Heine
And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail… — Heinrich Heine

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