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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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• 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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• 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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  Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

  Melody Beattie

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Music, Order, Divergent

  Yehudi Menuhin (1972). “Theme and Variations”, New York : Stein and Day

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• We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.

  Art Garfunkel

  Song, Appreciation, Real

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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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• My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

  Paul Twitchell

  Sound, Flutes, Strange

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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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• In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.

  Tony Iommi

  Past, Way, Causes

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

  Burt Bacharach

  Writing, People, Remember

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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 would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

  Michel Legrand

  Trying, Radio, Harmony

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• I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

  Teena Marie

  Beautiful, Running, Dream

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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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• A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

  Gordon Waller

  Ideas, Brilliant Ideas, Good Ideas

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• I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

  Conor Oberst

  Girl, Lying, Eye

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• Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

  Kathy Acker

  Writing, Thinking, Jazz

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• Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Music, Beautiful, Simple

  Krishna Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore (1991). “Purabi: A Miscellany in Memory of Rabindranath Tagore 1941-1991”

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• The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.

  Margaret Whiting

  Musician, Looks, Way

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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 always begin to compose the melody first.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Firsts

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• Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music...I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

  Carly Simon

  Song, Writing, My Boyfriend

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• If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

  Brad Paisley

  Song, Ideas, Musician

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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