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• I really love things with melody.

  Norah Jones

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• Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.

  Michio Kaku

  Play, Chemistry, Strings

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. 16 June, 2010.

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• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

  John Keats

  Music, Spiritual, Sweet

  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 11 (1820)

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• I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.

  Miley Cyrus

  Guitar, Play, Add

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• I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Honesty, Believe

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• We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wine, Play, Poison

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• I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.

  Carlos Santana

  Guitar, Long, People

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• Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I think my greatest achievement has been to create unexpected melodies and harmonies within a rock and roll framework. And as a producer I would like to be remembered as someone who was able to sustain a band of unquestionable individual talent, and push it to the forefront during its working career. I think I really captured the best of our output, growth, change and maturity on tape - the multifaceted gem that is Led Zeppelin.

  Jimmy Page

  Thinking, Maturity, Rocks

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• Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Horse, Essence, Fine

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1926). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist Revealed in His Own Words”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  Jack White

  Broken, Hip Hop, Hips

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving, Silence, Dancer

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• From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Symphony, Insightful, Triumph

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• Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

  Carlos Santana

  Children, Ocean, Wind

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• Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

  Maureen Forrester

  Beautiful, People, Singing

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• Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.

  Liz Phair

  Skills, Giving, Essentials

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• Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.

  Brandon Boyd

  Writing, Men, Voice

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• The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

  Susan Orlean

  Opposites, Feelings, Genius

  "Snap" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 22, 2010.

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• The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music. While the technique should be as perfected as possible, that is a lesser essential Anybody can acquire a brilliant technique Melody alone permits a work to survive.

  Darius Milhaud

  Writing, Self, Secret

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• I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.

  Bruno Mars

  Beautiful, Song, Hawaii

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• When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

  Dave Matthews

  Simple, Way, My Favorite

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• A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

  Reba McEntire

  Song, Heart, Feel Good

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

  Freddie Mercury

  Thinking, Superiors

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• There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

  Willie Nelson

  Notes

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• If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Song, Vices, Vice Versa

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• Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

  Tracy Chapman

  Two, Lines, Fragments

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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