Melody Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I look at melody as rhythm.

— Charlie Parker

Melody is the essence of music.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that…

— E. L. Doctorow

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

— Shankar Mahadevan

A good song is a good song, and good musicians can play all different styles.

— John Doe

Music is about textures as well as melody.

— Ken Hill

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 not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

— Pearl S. Buck

“Music is a melody of words that gets into your soul”

— Fiona MacKie

The meaning of the words in my songs are very important to me. But what's most important to me is that the music works.

— Julia Holter

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

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate…

— Robert Genn