Melody Quotes

587 Melody quotes by 453 unique authors

He made a sound of frustation, caught at her hand, brought it to his chest, and pressed it flat over his heart. The steady beat… — Cassandra Clare
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap… — Fred Rogers
...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write down for strings… — Michio Kaku
Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging… — Madeleine L'Engle
I have a 'Play The Melody' philosophy. It means don't over arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody-and do it the simplest way… — Jackie Gleason
It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen.… — Morton Feldman
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have… — James A. Garfield
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is… — Rabindranath Tagore
Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody. — Henry David Thoreau
With a good melody... music gets me through everything. — Drake Bell
A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists. — Rokia Traore
In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and… — Jennifer Warnes
For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know? — Zakk Wylde
Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where… — King Krule
Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires. — Alison Goldfrapp
You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go… — Britt Daniel
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of… — Albert Murray
I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a… — A. R. Rahman
My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with… — Corey Taylor
Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story… — Nadia Ali
When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and… — Sam Shepard
The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in… — Max Heindel
I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or… — Robert Pinsky
The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir, I hear four-part… — Gian Carlo Menotti

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