Melody Quotes
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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
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I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.
Michel Legrand
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Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.
Trevor Rabin
Cinema
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This is wine," Ghoolion said solemnly. "Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine can be a melody in a cut-glass goblet, but it can also be a cacophony in a dirty tumbler, or a rainy autumn night, or a funeral march that scorches your tongue.
Walter Moers
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I want to be a tune swept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.
Amedeo Modigliani
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Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night, While the stars that oversprinkle All the Heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.
Edgar Allan Poe
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So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.
Steven Siro Vai
Alcatrazz
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As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come.
Daniel Cawdry
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It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
Adam Duritz
Matt Malley
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I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.
Mike Stoller
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Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
Terrence Mitchell Riley
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While the accompanimental sic figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.
Bear McCreary