Melody Quotes - Page 21

• Well I mean I just sit at the piano and maybe figure out some harmony or melody or both. Sometimes you can hear it in your head. Sometimes you don't always have to write it down. You just write it down so you can remember it.

  Roy Hargrove

  Writing, Mean, Piano

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• It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

  Matt Berninger

  Writing, Important, Stories

  Source: the-talks.com

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• I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.

  Zach Condon

  Brain, Trying, Flow

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

  Zach Condon

  Long, Progression, Chords

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• I sat down at the piano and my hands began to browse over the keys. Thensomething happened. I felt as though I could reach out and touch God. I foundmyself playing a melody, one I'd never heard or played before, and words came intomy head - they just seemed to fall into place.

  Thomas A. Dorsey

  Fall, Keys, Hands

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• 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.

  Jake Epstein

  Song, Dark, Haunting

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• And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating, a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God.

  Saint Augustine

  Space, Light, Self

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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.

  Bradley Joseph

  Memorable, Writing, Musician

  Official Bio from bradleyjoseph.com,

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• When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.

  Christian Kane

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.

  Bear McCreary

  Lonely, Tunes, Violin

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• Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits your ear. Keep the bass line moving so you don't stay in one spot: if you have an interesting bass line and you roll it against the melody, the chords are going to come out right.

  Paul Simon

  Moving, Thinking, Play

  "Paul Simon's Workshop at the Guitar Study Center" by Richard Albero and Fred Styles, Guitar Player, April 1975.

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• I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do with current events and what is going on in the news. You can call them topical songs, songs about the news, and then developing into more philosophical songs later.

  Phil Ochs

  Song, Philosophical, Writing

  Phil Ochs' testimony at the Chicago Seven trial, December 11, 1969.

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• I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!

  Angel Olsen

  Song, Writing, People

  Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. January 24, 2014.

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• No harmony. No melody. No rhythm. No bullshit.

  Phill Niblock

  Bullshit, Harmony, Rhythm

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• It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected way. Authors, composers and artists have tried - and here we've rounded up our favorite quotes that help to begin forming structure around such an unspoken universal force. Which are most meaningful to you? If you had to sum up the power of music and sound in one sentence, what would you say?"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."

  Leopold Stokowski

  Meaningful, Moving, Artist

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• Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Caring, Harmony, Made

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• My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I'm quite limited as a player, so it's my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Writing, Player, Giving

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you've got to really listen hard to somebody who's doing a good melody and a good lyric.

  Barry Manilow

  Country, Interesting, Gone

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My first experience with music was my father, he was a stereo buff and he built his own little Hi-Fi center with recorders and everything and I listened to a lot of jazz, which gave me a sensibility for melody.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Father, Littles, Firsts

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• Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

  Plato

  Soul, Principles, Way

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• It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

  Joseph Haydn

  Genius, Invention, Produce

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• Where Snah [Hans Magnus Ryan] is a melody and texture man, I am more of a riff, rhythm and concept guy. I am much better than him in certain fields, and he surely wipes the floor with me in others, and we both know it's like that.

  Bent Saether

  Men, Guy, Texture

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.

  John Ruskin

  People, Missing, Knows

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.70

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• Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

  George Eliot

  Music, Ears, Pipe

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.142, Wordsworth Editions

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• music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Music, Beautiful, Technique

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