Melody Quotes

587 Melody quotes by 453 unique authors

Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong?… — Pete Seeger
Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of… — Alison Krauss
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
In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play… — Michio Kaku
I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tried my… — Leslie Feinberg
The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on. — Bantu Holomisa
Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies. — Darren Rowse
The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music.… — Darius Milhaud
Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. — Squarepusher
I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics, I really do.… — Rod Stewart
Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the… — George Jones
So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the… — Lionel Richie
I remember my father playing me Same Situation when I was a nipper, and saying how nobody since has done melodies as well as Joni… — Laura Marling
When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was… — Lana Del Rey
Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a… — Thom Yorke
The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's… — Stan Getz
I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom — Paul Robeson
Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of… — Kathy Acker
Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen.… — Gautama Buddha
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and… — Paul Robeson
My partner sometimes liked to go into the studio and improvise voice things just for fun. When I returned from England I transcribed one of… — Meredith Monk
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be… — Maureen Forrester
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. — Gary Cherone
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it… — Ludwig van Beethoven

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