Melody Quotes

587 Melody quotes by 453 unique authors

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has… — Igor Stravinsky
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra. — Barbra Streisand
Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all. — Steven Tyler
I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes. — Steven Tyler
I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things… — Rufus Wainwright
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
I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious. — Florence Welch
I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up… — Stevie Wonder
A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se. — Al Yankovic
Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope,… — Greg Graffin
The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal… — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own… — Neil Gaiman
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its… — Khalil Gibran
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
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about… — Jorge Luis Borges
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will. — William S. Burroughs
...tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a crown for your… — Stephen R. Lawhead
Now they are a circle, and they vibrate together, they pulsate together. Their hearts are no longer separate, their beats are no longer separate, they… — Rajneesh
They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause;… — Virginia Woolf
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless… — W. Somerset Maugham
If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. — Nicholas Sparks
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your… — Bess Streeter Aldrich
And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings. — Lisa Ann Sandell

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