Melody Quotes

587 Melody quotes by 453 unique authors

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then… — Unknown Author
I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them… — Dave Barry
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible… — Jean Genet
The song is ended, but the melody lingers on... — Irving Berlin
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me… — James Nasmyth
There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always… — John Ruskin
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he… — Martin Seligman
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the… — Samuel Johnson
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and… — Michelangelo
I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies. — Lana Del Rey
What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered, a kind of… — Anthony de Mello
Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and… — Porphyry
Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character. — Aristotle
It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a… — Christian B. Anfinsen
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

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