Common Quote by John Dowland

Melody is the essence of music.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

— Joshua Logan

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

— Richard Wagner

Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my…

— Ryan Tedder

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody.

— Shankar Mahadevan

Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way.…

— Plato

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of…

— Zach Condon

For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about…

— Cornel West

“Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and…

— Christoph Wolff

“Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its…

— Music