Melody Quotes

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.

It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other - also for diction. Her words paint.

I like to get a vibe first, then a melody and really beat up the melody for a while, then try and find a lyric that really suits him/her.

He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.

I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them.

I think I was annoyed going through the '90s just as a guy who loves music. There wasn't a lot of music for me. Everything was groove driven. We lost the plot with the melody. There's no more melody.

For me I look at a group like Queen or AC/DC or the Beastie Boys. There was melody within what they did. There was a certain style with what they did. I think it is coming back.

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

I don't believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.

The melody is French. But that's the end of the record. I named it "Jean Pierre Then There Were None," you know, because of the big explosion. You'll like it. It's a nice album.

Everybody needs inspiration Everbody needs a song. A beautiful melody, When the night's so long. Cause there is no guarantee, That this life is easy.

I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.

God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.

I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep it fluid.

What? You don't think he's cute?" "I didn't really notice." "How can you not notice when a guy is cute?" Melody stared at her in disbelief.

I really love things with melody.

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

John Coltrane, he talks to god. He starts playing his solo, he might play for 14 minutes. For 14 minutes, it seems like he's talking to god, but he always takes a hold of the melody.

I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom

When the songs of your heart start singing, you should listen...for its harmony will bring you happiness and the melody is the voice of your true spirit.

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

The song could start with a riff that I base the song around. Or a chord progression or a melody I have, I just write a story about it. Lyric-wise, it's cool to have someone else's input too.

But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

The Song of Love, the Song of Hate, the Songs of Praise and of Thanksgiving; I've learned them all, but there remains one called the Melody of Living.

Good melody is never out of fashion

With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.

My beats and my production aren't dark or emo by any means; it's basically the lyrics I think, and the melody sometimes can be too.

I think country has the biggest melodies ever.

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

I am not a rock producer. I don't see that. I once turned down Guns N' Roses. I don't like shouting. I'm a melody guy. I love great melody.

Through song you learn, and I think school systems need to learn that. Through the rhythm you can learn better, through melody, with something you need to learn, it's a vehicle for it.

I find that the rhythm of going on long walks will suggest melodies.

In terms of melody, I am really into great 90's melodies. I feel like there was a great focus on melody in the 90's, like 90's pop-hooks and 90's R&B hooks; I just love them.

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.

I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.

My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all.

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.

Life is a living flute, yoga is the art of creating melody and rhythm in it.

Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.

Life is not a battle to win but a melody to sing.

The melody of music makes my heart merry.

O' melancholy, hectic chill for human soul, herewith dismal presence, any spirit does descent.