Melody Quotes

587 Melody quotes by 453 unique authors

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A… — Samuel Rogers
Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he is disturbed himself,… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
I think country has the biggest melodies ever. — Sean Kingston
You put down one color and it calls for an answer. You have to look at it like a melody. — Romare Bearden
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to… — Edith Sitwell
Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life. — Kenny Smith
Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking,… — Derek Walcott
Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than… — Edward Dowden
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear.… — William Butler Yeats
Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will. — Charles R. Swindoll
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons. — Billy Collins
It's the melody within the heart that helps us to endure. — John McLeod
Eric Peters' music is at the top of what gets played around my house, in my car and while I am running. Â I am… — Unknown Author
Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point… — Constance Hale
When the songs of your heart start singing, you should listen...for its harmony will bring you happiness and the melody is the voice of your… — Paulo Coelho
We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn â€” the melody of… — William Mackergo Taylor
Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to… — Haley Reinhart
The doctor used to tell me that every person about to die becomes a music box playing the melody that best describes his life, his… — Patrick Modiano
Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies. — Glen Hirshberg

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