Melody Quote by Dave Brubeck Download Open image “The secret of a great melody is a secret.” — Dave Brubeck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Melody Music Secret Songwriting Writing
What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered... — Jocelyn Murray Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, if there is any secret, it is about the need to find that peace and calm in our personal space with music, as… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
I think the church should strive to give parishioners good music. Music is as necessary for worship as a building with a beautiful altar,… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen. — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman. — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt song, or whoever. I realize there are so many melodies and chord progressions in pop and rock music that are so similar that you can kind of trace it back to other things. Most of… — Conor Oberst Copy Share
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
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 been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been… — James A. Garfield Copy Share
I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried and tried,… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing. — Drake Copy Share Image
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… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
My plea therefore is this: Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with our music… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment. — Rodney Yee Copy Share Image
