Melody Quote by Gerry Mulligan Download Open image “Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.” — Gerry Mulligan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Melody Music Wit
Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies. — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck. — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a… — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics? — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
If you're a poet and you're using rhyme, rhyme generates ideas. If you're a songwriter and you're using melody and words together, they bounce… — Momus Copy Share Image
I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition… — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with. — Gerry Mulligan 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… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
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… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
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
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