Melody Quotes - Page 12

• The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

  Paul Lansky

  Together, Tunes, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  DJ Ashba

  Writing, Skills, Age

  "Guns N' Roses DJ Ashba: On Overcoming Obstacles with a Guitar". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• 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.

  Michael Buble

  Thinking, Guy, Annoyed

  "Patiences pays off for Michael Buble". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 26, 2007.

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• I would say that we like to disguise our heartbreaks with happier melodies.

  Aino Jawo

  Disguise

  "Icona Pop's Aino Jawo on their new album, 'This Is... Icona Pop'". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart. My songs bring images to the listener's mind. The object is to transport my listeners to another place, some place sacred and spiritual that will make them glad they took the ride.

  Bradley Joseph

  Spiritual, Song, Memorable

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• In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Music, School, America

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• Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

  George Clinton

  Real, Rap, Hip Hop

  "The extraterrestrial brother: George Clinton on time, space, and funk". Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. February 12, 2010.

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• When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.

  David Amram

  Listening, Four, Way

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

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• 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.

  Patrick Carney

  Writing, Ears, I Can

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• I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies.

  Nikki Sixx

  Player, Guitar, Lines

  Source: forbassplayersonly.com

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• There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level

  Paul Taylor

  Levels, Producers, Demos

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

  Mary Garden

  Blessed, Voice, Lord

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

  Sting

  Long Walks, Rhythm, Long

  Sting (Musician) (1998). “Shape of My Heart”, Welcome Books

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• All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world.

  William Law

  Sweet, Light, Air

  William Law (1740). “An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being righteous over-much. An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospels”, p.117

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• Inside the silence is a melody.

  Joe Walsh

  Silence, Explanation, Silence Is

  Song: The Radio Song, Album: Got Any Gum?

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• The only criticism heard with any frequency of Elton John's first American album, 'Elton John,' was that the production was too grandiose. The melodies were superb, and lyrics frequently very good, and the performances flawless.

  Jon Landau

  Criticism, Albums, Flawless

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• To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from this old concept and arrive at an image in which the spectator could feel the beauty of a fourth dimension, which lies much more between moments than within a moment. In music one remembers never one tone, but a melody, a theme, a movement. In dance, never a moment, but again the beauty of a movement in time and space.

  Ernst Haas

  Lying, Ideas, Space

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• Melodies are far more interesting. They are there, in your face, in certain sections of the songs. People do complain about the melody thing, but we do hit patches of melody and beauty, as well as the other stuff.

  Scott Walker

  Song, People, Interesting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally - like, when you've even played a recorder, or whatever, it becomes a lot easier to hear the beauty in a bird's song, or the quiet tune in a gentle rustle of the wind.

  Dave Smalley

  Song, Wind, Bird

  Source: www.pmakid.com

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• I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.

  Bryan Greenberg

  Fun, Writing, Guitar

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.

  Feist

  Song, Lying, Simple

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2012.

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• So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

  Michel Legrand

  Writing, Two, Directors

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• Sometimes the word dictated the melody.

  Andrew Bird

  Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a little bit of a head vs. heart kind of battle that happens sometimes with the song. There's the goose bump thing, where the melody or whatever it is just gets you and you don't know why. Sometimes, it's in a genre that you didn't think you liked and, all of a sudden, the song hits you and you just say, wow, I feel the hairs on the back of my neck. I love this song.

  Josh Groban

  Song, Heart, Thinking

  "Josh Groban indulges his inner musical theater geek with ‘Stages’". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 7, 2015.

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