Melody Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

  Jerry Garcia

  Nice, Writing, Hunters

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• If I was writing a song one night, I would leave the studio and come back the next day, and if I could remember the same melody on the same song, it was definitely something worth working more on. If I couldn't remember it, maybe there was a purpose about that.

  Trentemøller

  Song, Writing, Night

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of Art—inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart— builder of every home—kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody, for Music is the voice of Love.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Mother, Dream

  "Lectures and Essays (a Selection)".

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• The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

  Merle Haggard

  Missing You, Music Is, Happenings

  FaceBook post by Merle Haggard from Nov 04, 2011

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• In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

  Franz Liszt

  Song, Hungary, Divided

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• Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

  Lee Hazlewood

  Records, Lows, Strings

  "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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• After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

  Stanley Clarke

  Song, Nice, Opportunity

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• Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

  Adam Rich

  Meaningful, Rocks, People

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• But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story

  Glenn Danzig

  Song, Writing, Stories

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• We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

  Adam Rich

  Play, Heavy, Wanted

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• For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

  Herbie Mann

  Play, Perfect, Style

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• Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

  Terry Riley

  Gdp, Musical, Western Music

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• I really love writing themes and melody.

  Trevor Rabin

  Writing, Theme

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• One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.

  Shawn Colvin

  Sticks, Said, Managers

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• Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

  Michael W. Smith

  Records

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• Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Writing, Pleasure

  Interview with Tony Schwartz, www.uh.cz.

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• They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

  Audie Murphy

  Sight, Singing

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• After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

  Lee Konitz

  Simple, Years, Play

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• I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

  Phil Collins

  Play, Records, Ends

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• The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

  Enya

  Writing, Emotional, Moments

  "From the Heart". You Magazine Interview with Maureen Paton, January 08, 2006.

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• I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

  Britney Spears

  Writing, Thinking, Machines

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• Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

  Burt Bacharach

  Writing, People, Remember

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• A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Taken, Woody

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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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