Melody Quotes - Page 5

• I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

  Beth Orton

  Guitar, Feelings, Mess

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

  Rumi

  Play, Flutes, Felicity

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

  Gary Cherone

  Music, Song, Queens

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• There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

  Nuno Bettencourt

  Song, Writing, Two

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• If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Creating, People

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• The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

  Plato

  Children, Mind, Essentials

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• If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.

  Steven Tyler

  Beach, Boys, Islands

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• From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

  James Nasmyth

  Listening, Periods, Form

  James Nasmyth, Samuel Smiles (1883). “James Nasmyth Engineer: An Autobiography”, London : J. Murray

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• It's important to keep your creative muscle strong and working. My most inspiring method though is just sitting down with an acoustic guitar and coming up with melodies. It's what I've been doing nice I was nine years old.

  Zella Day

  Strong, Nice, Guitar

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• When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.

  Jason Mraz

  Hands, Breakthrough, Guts

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Music is the universal language, it evokes an emotion in all of us. That, we can all look at each other and we may not speak the same language, but that song or that melody can make us feel the same thing. And we can look at each other and agree and be like, "that did something for us". It makes us feel unified and connected.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Song, May, Looks

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• ... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.

  Keith Jarrett

  Taken, Player, Musician

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• Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he is disturbed himself, and there is a discord in the melody of his life. If he can quicken the feeling of another to joy or to gratitude, by that much he adds to his own life; he becomes himself by that much more alive. Whether conscious of it or not, his thought is affected for the better by the joy or gratitude of another, and his power and vitality increase thereby, and the music of his life grows more in harmony.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Gratitude, Joy, Feelings

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.27, Library of Alexandria

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• What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

  Michio Kaku

  Symphony, Strings, Membranes

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• I'm not a lawmaker, but I was thinking that if you have a really loud ring tone, maybe you should be stabbed in the ear?

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Ears, Tone

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2013

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• I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.

  George Strait

  Song, Thinking, Pay

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• The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.

  Ben Folds

  Song, Way, Gravity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.

  Chuck Mangione

  Strong, Interesting, Ingredients

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• It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.

  Avicii

  People, Feelings, Inspired

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's funny how the littlest things can make you feel larger than life; the right lyric, the most heartfelt melody, the clearest message. Love.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Heartfelt, Larger Than Life, Messages

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• Sing us a song you're the piano man.
  Sing us a song tonight.
  Cause we're all in the mood for a melody,
  And you've got us feeling all right.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Men, Piano

  "The Piano Man" (song) (1973)

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• John Coltrane, he talks to god. He starts playing his solo, he might play for 14 minutes. For 14 minutes, it seems like he's talking to god, but he always takes a hold of the melody.

  Patti Smith

  Coltrane

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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