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• From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Enthusiasm

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• Music is the melody whose text is the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Music, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.55, Publishdrive

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• You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

  Quincy Jones

  Music, Study, Harmony

  "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

  Steven Tyler

  Secret

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• Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

  Melody Beattie

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Fullness Of Life

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• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Fullness Of Life, Being Thankful

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

  Melody Beattie

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

  Carter Burwell

  Simple, Music Is

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• There are choirs singing in your head. If you listen, you will hear the music. It is the song of angels. Pay no attention to the sounds of the world. They are just noises, and even when added up all together they have no value, make no sense. Strain to hear the song of angels. Listen to the melody within your soul.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Song, Angel, Soul

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jun 06, 2014

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

  Dennis Brown

  Song, Sight, Singing

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• What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Feelings, Language, Music Is

  Ludwig Feuerbach (1854). “The essence of Christianity”, p.3

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

  Michel Legrand

  Thinking, Ghouls, Needs

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• There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state

  Stephan Jenkins

  Emotional, States, Rhythm

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• I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.

  Drake

  Rap, Moved

  "On the Cover: Drake". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.gq.com. April 13, 2012.

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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

  Writing, Simple, Want

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

  Toru Takemitsu

  Song, Thinking, Type

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• The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Starting Over, Principles, Becoming

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Ken Hensley

  Writing, Firsts, Rhythm

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• I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.

  Tom Araya

  Thinking, Trying, Stills

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• 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.

  Paul Simon

  Guitar, Voice, Good Enough

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• 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.

  Utada Hikaru

  Song, Writing, Done

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

  Johannes Brahms

  Handle, Overload

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• I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

  Enya

  Beach, Writing, Discipline

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Lines, Firsts, Form

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• Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

  Steven Bochco

  Beautiful, Emotional, Brain

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