Melody Quotes - Page 16

• 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.

  Alison Krauss

  Fixing, Suits, Being True

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't have some songwriting formula that I kinda go by. Usually it just comes by way of inspiration. Sometimes I'm inspired by a melody first and sometimes I'm inspired by a lyric. Typically, I'm inspired by an idea for a lyric and then after we get the lyric going then we write a melody to it.

  Natalie Grant

  Inspiration, Writing, Ideas

  "Natalie Grant’s whirlwind success continues with 'Hurricane'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Song, Swans, Tongue

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• To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.

  Maurice Ravel

  Writing, Quality, Ravel

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• We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.

  Nelly Sachs

  Mother, Heart, Rocks

  Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”

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• I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

  Brett Dennen

  Song, Ideas, Musical

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• Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

  Andrew Bird

  Morning, Trying, Shapes

  "A Conversation with Andrew Bird: Crafting Music and Chicago Memories". Interview with Sarah Brooks, thirdcoastreview.com. Setember 2, 2016.

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• Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

  Elvis Costello

  Writing, Keys, Talking

  Source: tomwaitsfan.com

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  Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

  Eric Church

  Memories, Sound

  Song: Springsteen, Album: Chief, 2011

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• Every time I would think about my purpose, the answers seemed to come in sounds.  In melodies.  In feelings.

  David Archuleta

  Thinking, Feelings, Sound

  David Archuleta (2010). “Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance”, p.127, Penguin

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• I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.

  John Densmore

  Play, Two, Trying

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• Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Grief, Mars

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.153, Barbour Publishing

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• Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

  Kim Gordon

  Sight, Singing, Bass

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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.

  Steve Vai

  Music, Light, Guitar

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• Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

  Nile Rodgers

  Music, Real, Guitar

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• With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.

  Tom Wopat

  Heart, Simple, Groove

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• I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.

  Avicii

  Writing, Lines, Want

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

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• My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched the keys softly, as if gliding my hands through water, but the musical notes kept slipping between my fingers like bubbles, waltzing away in the blue radiance.

  Ella Leya

  Keys, Blue, Hands

  Ella Leya (2015). “The Orphan Sky”, p.24, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began to occupy me. By some fortunate coincidence of thought or circumstance I am attuned to the universe, I am fitted to hear, my being moves in a sphere of melody, my fancy and imagination are excited to an inconceivable degree. This is no longer the dull earth on which I stood.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Moving, Garden

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I follow it and lay it down. I can pare it, shape it, and polish it later...My job is to take down the dribs and drabs - to free-associate, if you will, knowing that the associations have their own plans for where we're going with all this.

  Julia Cameron

  Jobs, Writing, Knowing

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• In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with specific tools, when it invades man’s time, when it becomes sound, noise is the source of the purpose and power, of the dream – Music.

  Jacques Attali

  Dream, Men, Sound

  Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.6, Manchester University Press

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• Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that’s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn’t change the fabric of things. This universe was not made for the fallen, only the redeemed.

  Geoffrey Wood

  Wish, Fabric, Noise

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• 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.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Song, Hate, I've Learned

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• There are two thing you need for a jolly good hymn.The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of the worshipper.The second-and perhaps even more important- is a good tune..with a simple popular melody.

  John Betjeman

  Simple, Hymns, Two

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• I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Beautiful, Real

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.46, tredition

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