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

• My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched the keys softly, as if gliding my hands through water, but the musical notes kept slipping between my fingers like bubbles, waltzing away in the blue radiance.

  

  Ella Leya
  • Music
  • Keyboard
  • Radiance

• 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

• I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It’s just a part of the cycle of our lives, we’re born, we have eyes, we have music.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Eyes

• 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

• 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

• Often the 'lead' of a classical song will have something really cool to its melody that - even though it might be a violin or something doing it in the song - I end up wanting to try something like that with my voice.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Voice
  • Melody
  • VIolin

• 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

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

  

  Nelly Sachs
  • World
  • Heart
  • Mother

• Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

  

  Claudio Monteverdi
  • Text
  • Rhythm
  • 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

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

  

  William P. Young
  • Beautiful
  • Mess
  • Melody

• 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

• 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

• The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Words
  • Silent
  • Melody

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Words
  • Relationship
  • Laughter

• 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

• 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

• A great song for me is when I hear it and it's contagious. The lyrics and the melody, if grows on you once and you want to hear it over and over again.

  

  Easton Corbin
  • Song
  • Grows
  • Contagious

• A lot of people love men that rock; I love men that love a good melody and a good harmony.

  

  Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
  • People
  • Good
  • Harmony

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