Melody Quotes

• 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

• Music is the melody whose text is the world.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Text
  • Melody
  • Music Is

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

  

  William Blake
  • Harmony
  • Melody
  • Demonstration

• When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Up
  • Music
  • Hands

• 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
  • Relevant
  • Delivery

• I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of pieced together; and more and more nowadays I'll have complete songs - chords, lyrics, a melody - and we'll apply to those songs what we feel is required. That has happened much more on Humbug album than on any of the others.

  

  Alexander David Turner Arctic Monkeys
  • Writing
  • Together
  • 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
  • Heritage

• 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

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

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Words
  • Relationship
  • Laughter

• Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Children
  • Song
  • Radiohead

• We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.

  

  Nelly Sachs
  • World
  • Heart
  • Mother

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

  

  William P. Young
  • Beautiful
  • Mess
  • Melody

• I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Good
  • Song
  • Wonderful

• Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Write
  • Melody
  • Ecstasy

• Solos I kind of couldn't care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care most about, but it's really the melody playing that is the cornerstone of what I'm working on.

  

  Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.

  

  Wesley Borland Big Dumb Face
  • Strong
  • Pleasure
  • Guitar

• 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

• Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

  

  Akon
  • Body
  • Certain
  • Instinct

• The jazz always seems to automatically come out, because it was from my jazz days that I learned that spark. And the nice thing with my band and this repertoire, which is a complete joy, is that we go beyond just playing chords and melody. It is music that can stretch out.

  

  George Benson
  • Music
  • Nice
  • Joy

• Well, I tell you... the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody round the melody, and the third chorus, I routines.

  

  Louis Armstrong
  • Tell
  • Chorus
  • Routines

• The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it’s still a melody

  

  Stan Getz
  • Melody
  • Saxophone

• Well, the first thing I do is I try to listen to whatever rapping is already on the track. I listen for cadence and melody to see how the track's already been written, and to make sure that whatever flow or flows I decide to run with, or patterns or melodies that I decide to put into the song, that they're not already in there. Then I try to see if there's a different part of the subject matter that I can talk about.

  

  Bun B
  • Track
  • Rapping
  • Cadence

• The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

  

  William Beebe
  • Men
  • Water
  • Mood

• Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

  

  Claudio Monteverdi
  • Text
  • Rhythm
  • Melody

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