Ruston Kelly (Ruston Samuel Kelly) Quotes
A folk melody can exist uniquely but also still be somewhat familiar to you.
Ruston Kelly
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
Wayne Coyne
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
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
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
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
Marilyn is a kind of ultimate. She is uniquely feminine. Everything she does is different, strange, and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso. She makes a man proud to be a man.
Clark Gable
Text first, rhythm second, melody third.
Claudio Monteverdi
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
You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.
William P. Young
The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
Kate Morton
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
Difficult folk, these women!
Mikhail Bulgakov
I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.
Tom Araya
Slayer
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
If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.
Nicholas Sparks
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
I've forgotten many things, but I'll never forget a melody.
Michael Jackson
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
