Melody Quotes

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story

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.

I look at melody as rhythm.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.

The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on.

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

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.

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her heart may know What secret makes them so. Love, only Love.

My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.

I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

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.

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a 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.

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

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.

One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.

I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition and it's something that I can't really control.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

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

I really love writing themes and melody.

When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

I always begin to compose the melody first.

In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.