Melody Quotes

• Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

  

  Socrates
  • Silence
  • Hear
  • Noise

• 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
  • Resounds

• I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Time
  • Changes
  • Bored

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

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Things
  • Sound
  • Melody

• I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Like
  • Lyrics
  • Taking

• A melody is not merely something you can hum.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • You
  • Something
  • Melody

• Inside the silence is a melody.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Silence
  • Melody

• I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Girl
  • Eye
  • Cutting

• A possibility to create a melody you will remember and sing inside in your soul. this is what the music is for me, not the sound itself.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Soul
  • Create
  • Sing

• I look at melody as rhythm.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Rhythm
  • Melody

• The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Done
  • Song
  • English

• It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

  

  Manika
  • Time
  • Music
  • Important

• I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Like
  • Quality
  • Genre

• Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

  

  Carole King
  • May
  • Brain
  • Sometimes

• The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Love
  • Chance

• A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Depends
  • Letters
  • Melody

• Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

  

  William Blake
  • Harmony
  • Melody
  • Demonstration

• If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Song
  • Melody
  • Vices

• 'Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that, I got a barrage of guitar songs that I was supposed to put words to, and I don't know if that was the best thing for Guns.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Time
  • Words
  • Lyrics

• I don't think I worry too much about whether to include a melody line or not in a song. That will come along in a natural fashion. I have always said that a song and a lyric writes itself. I really don't think too much about the actual writing, the arrangements or even the playing. It's second nature by now.

  

  Thomas Börje Forsberg Bathory
  • Song
  • Melody
  • Arrangements

• Music is the melody whose text is the world.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Text
  • Melody
  • Music Is

• Usually now a song starts just in my head with a melody or a lyric idea coming first.Then typically I'll go to a guitar, unless it's a instrumental then I'll usually build it on a keyboard instrument.

  

  Eliot Lewis The Average White Band
  • Song
  • Head
  • Starts

• 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

• I don't really write. I'm an on-the-spot type of person. This beat, let's listen to it; let's vibe. And then I'll do a melody, and then we'll go back and do it.

  

  Travis Scott
  • Write
  • Beat
  • Melody

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