Melody Quote by Heather McLaren

“Be still for you may hear the hauntingly familiar song of a mermaid.”

— Heather McLaren

“He flipped through the music stations as he drove, searching for some nonexistent perfect song that would be, as Stevie Nicks might sing, “hauntingly…

— Harlan Coben

“His lullaby was an instant success not because it was incomparably original, but because it offered a familiar melody in an original setting.”

— Derek Thompson

“I lit a cigarette, using the matches I always carried in my left pocket, the song playing inside hit the backdoor and then my…

— Sanne van Dolder

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

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

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

“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

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

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

— Geddy Lee

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

— Drake

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