Melody Quotes

587 Melody quotes by 453 unique authors

Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged. — Maya Angelou
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So… — Jack White
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I think my greatest… — Jimmy Page
What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating… — Ludwig Feuerbach
We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else… — C.S. Lewis
I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real… — Antonin Dvorak
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking… — C.S. Lewis
Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where… — Walter Savage Landor
Text first, rhythm second, melody third. — Claudio Monteverdi
...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking going… — Robben Ford
Solos I kind of [couldn't] care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care *most* about, but it's really the melody… — Joe Satriani
If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on… — William Christopher Handy
I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps... — Amedeo Modigliani
Every soul is a melody which needs renewing. — Stephane Mallarme
We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift you and make… — Unknown Author
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical… — Bela Bartok
There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state — Stephan Jenkins
Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be… — Unknown Author

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