Ruston Kelly (Ruston Samuel Kelly) Quotes

A folk melody can exist uniquely but also still be somewhat familiar to you.

Ruston Kelly

• Melody
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• There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Things
  • Sound
  • Melody

• I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Music
  • Band
  • Listening

• We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Great
  • Real
  • Song

• All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Song
  • Matter
  • Melody

• You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Inspiration
  • Lyrics
  • Melody

• Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

  

  Claudio Monteverdi
  • Text
  • Rhythm
  • Melody

• I'm a very melody-driven writer and I have a rule that I don't write anything down because if I can't remember the melody than it wasn't worth remembering. So it's my way to test myself in the studio. When I was a kid I could sing pretty well so melody always made a lot of sense to me.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Remember

• You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.

  

  William P. Young
  • Beautiful
  • Mess
  • Melody

• The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Busy
  • Folk
  • Happiest

• For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Soul
  • Painting
  • Harmony

• Difficult folk, these women!

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Women
  • Difficult
  • Folk

• I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.

  

  Tom Araya Slayer
  • Try
  • Melody
  • Screaming

• Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope, which is also true of Bad Religion. So it's more meant to draw some parallels between the two. And I think even my voice and my delivery can be thought of as a little bit folky.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Thinking
  • Melody
  • Relevant

• If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Words
  • Relationship
  • Laughter

• Often people poopoo melody as if it's a cheap trick to make people like things, but in my experience it's the hardest part of the tune, to find something that doesn't immediately remind you of something that's happened before.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Experience
  • Melody
  • Remind

• I've forgotten many things, but I'll never forget a melody.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Things
  • Melody

• The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Silence
  • Escape
  • Melody

• As far as the music goes, I like melody.

  

  Dickey Betts
  • Music
  • Melody

• I love melody, and that's what I love about pop music. The words can become what they are through a special melody. I learned to play guitar by myself, and writing songs came with playing guitar, so the writing isn't one part and the music something else.

  

  Anna Ternheim
  • Playing
  • Guitar
  • Melody

• Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

  

  Etta James
  • Singing
  • Discipline
  • Jazz

• I think when I first started discovering I could write songs, I was so naive. And it was after I got broken up with and had my heart sliced up into a bunch of little pieces that I was like, "I'm going to say this." I didn't even know how to play guitar.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Discovering
  • Write Songs
  • Play Guitar

• That three-foot putt is tough for me right now! I'm not making too many putts.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Right
  • Tough
  • Making

• A folk melody can exist uniquely but also still be somewhat familiar to you.

  

  Ruston Kelly
  • Melody
  • Folk
  • Uniquely