Melody Quotes - Page 37

• So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

  Lionel Richie

  Careers, People, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I remember my father playing me Same Situation when I was a nipper, and saying how nobody since has done melodies as well as Joni Mitchell. I concur. The thing that most affected me was just her resonance, and that is something she must have been born with.

  Laura Marling

  Father, Done, Remember

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• When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

  Lana Del Rey

  Race, Feelings, Different

  "Lana Del Rey: Can She Live?". www.complex.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be like this: As the moon in a bright sky In some clear lake reflected, Though to that lake the moon has never moved. Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives From music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody. Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions Of horses, oxen, carts and other things, Nothing is as it appears.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dream, Buddhist, Horse

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• You should do what we do, stack chips like *Hebrews*
  Don't let the melody intrigue you (uh-uh)
  Cause I leave you, I'm only here
  For that green paper which lead you

  Jadakiss

  Hip Hop, Paper, Green

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• When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and wept or rejoiced with the spirit of the songs. I found that where forces have been the same, whether people weave, build, pick cotton, or dig in the mine, they understand each other in the common language of work, suffering, and protest.

  Paul Robeson

  Song, People, Singing

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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