Composer Quote by William Christopher Handy

“In melodies of longing, my heart does play, A saxophonist's soul, in love's ballet. Our meetings planned, yet fate intervenes, A cosmic dance, behind…

— Innantia H Magcanya

“From castles of bone unknown music comes But now, that toil rewarded; you, your calculations, ––you, your fits of impatience––are no more than your…

— Arthur Rimbaud

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour…

— Samuel Rogers

The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.

— Mike Stoller

“Why do we care about singers? Wherein lies the power of songs? Maybe it derives from the sheer strangeness of there being singing in…

— Salmon Rushdie

“Each day we draft a new movement in our symphony of life; what melody will you compose today?”

— Ken Poirot

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

— Emmylou Harris

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

— Plato

“Let the music of words and the literature of notes harmonize within you, for in this symphony of expression, we discover the melody of…

— Ramona I

“I’m not the flowering of a song, nor the flow of melody I am the echo of the shattering sound of my defeat”

— Rabisankar Bal

“Music is the love child birthed from the boundless freedom found in dreams and the rapturous opposition faced in life; for that, we should…

— Dave Matthes