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• I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

  Maya Angelou

  Forever, Scripture, Earth

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• I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.

  Bjork

  Together, Different, Way

  "Björk: what inspires me" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. May 03, 2012.

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• It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

  Bono

  Morning, Wake Up, Noble

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• There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

  David Bowie

  Mean, Want, Way

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Creative, Process, Dishes

  "Sinéad O'Connor: 'I define success differently'". Interview with Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Writing, Thinking, Piano

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• I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

  Florence Welch

  Able, Kind, Instinct

  "Exclusive Interview: Florence At The NME Awards 2012". Interview with Zoe Griffin, blog.very.co.uk. March 1, 2012.

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• I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

  Stevie Wonder

  Song, Writing, Ideas

  "Stevie Wonder – Musician and Statesman". www.reallifestories.org.

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• A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Rap, Rap Song

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope, which is also true of Bad Religion. So it's more meant to draw some parallels between the two. And I think even my voice and my delivery can be thought of as a little bit folky.

  Greg Graffin

  Thinking, Two, Voice

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• The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Change, Acceptance

  "Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits".

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• The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Strong, Boys

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.30, Crown Archetype

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• Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Voice, People

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.

  Thomas Mann

  Passion, Would Be, Taste

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• That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

  Paul Brunton

  Peace, Silence, Meditation

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn

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• It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Play, Trying

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.

  Robert Schumann

  Piano, Mind, Desire

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.28

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• Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.

  Lisa McMann

  Tragedy, Sound

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• Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
  Made still a blundering kind of melody;
  Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,
  Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;
  Free from all meaning whether good or bad,
  And in one word, heroically mad.

  John Dryden

  Knowing, Mad, Poetry

  John Dryden (1873). “Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.69

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• Loud is the summer's busy song
  The smallest breeze can find a tongue,
  While insects of each tiny size
  Grow teasing with their melodies,
  Till noon burns with its blistering breath
  Around, and day lies still as death.

  John Clare

  Summer, Song, Lying

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• I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

  Lana Del Rey

  Beautiful, Memories, Writing

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• Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and passions, restoring 'Pristine Harmony' of the souls' faculties. He applied the same means to the curing of diseases of both body and mind.

  Porphyry

  Inspiration, Mean, Healing

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• I've just really been into melody and lyrics and songwriting. Writing a rap, to me, is easy. I could write a rap like that. But writing songs and melodies and s**t that's hopefully going to stick around for 30, 40 years is f**king hard...If you have good songs and you're talented, people will eventually come to your shows, people will buy your music.

  Kid Rock

  Song, Kings, Rap

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• You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent is only a starting point. You've got to keep working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there. ... Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. ... The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ... After you get what you want you don't want it. ... Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies. ... The song is ended, but as the songwriter wrote, the melody lingers on.

  Irving Berlin

  Song, Hate, Writing

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• Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.

  Pete Seeger

  May, Red, Revolution

  Pete Seeger (2013). “The Pete Seeger Reader”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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