Melody Quotes - Page 8

• From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Writing, Play, Piano

  Marvin Hamlisch (1992). “The Way I was”, Scribner

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• I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

  Frank Iero

  Desire, Want, Solo

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• Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

  Carole King

  Brain, May, Pages

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• The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you propose the movie the way I do, then the language is just one part of the melody. Orchestrating all inside, and the language is following the meaning of what they say, and it's never the same as written.

  Emir Kusturica

  Perfect, Way, Gypsy

  "Momentum and Emotion, Emir Kusturica’s 'Black Cat, White Cat'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 09, 1999.

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• Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

  Khalil Gibran

  Music, Oneness, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Traveling to Europe and traveling in the U.S.A. was a much different experience. 'On the Road' exemplified everything glamorous that was happening on this side of the planet. The book puts off some kind of sweet melody - part hope for the world, part nostalgic.

  Edward Ruscha

  Sweet, Book, Europe

  "Ed Ruscha on Kerouac, Social Media and Pop Culture in the 1960s". Interview with Tara Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.

  Lionel Richie

  Country, Kings, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.

  Sonny Rollins

  Mother, Islands, Tunes

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• In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.

  John Ruskin

  Writing, Thinking, Hymns

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• I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.

  Ryan Tedder

  Pops, Sucker

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• With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.

  Ryan Tedder

  Block, Voice, Iphone

  "OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder on Hitmaking, Writer's Block and the Song That Got Away (Q&A)" by Michele Amabile Angermiller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 06, 2013.

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• I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's doing with the Auto-Tune is actually creative because he just writes good melodies. He just writes good songs. He's just gifted.

  Will Ferrell

  Song, Writing, Artist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Guitar, Pieces, Storytelling

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• Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.

  Steve Vai

  Attitude, Emotional, Energy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Song, Guitar, Were Not Meant To Be

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• I have a Bird in spring
  Which for myself doth sing -
  The spring decoys.
  And as the summer nears -
  And as the Rose appears,
  Robin is gone.
  Yet do I not repine
  Knowing that Bird of mine
  Though flown -
  Learneth beyond the sea
  Melody new for me
  And will return.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Spring, Sea

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.244, Delphi Classics

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• The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

  Emily Dickinson

  Beautiful, Silence, Silent

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2032, Delphi Classics

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• Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.

  Daniel Levitin

  Brain, Body, Harmony

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• Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Taken, Fate

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.269, ShandonPress

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• Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blessed, Thinking, Feet

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.16

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• Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to sharp lightning. As some of them are susceptible only of melody, so some hearts can sing but one song of love, while others will fun in a full choral harmony.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Song, Fun

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.113

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• Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Girl, Boys

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• Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Song, Peace

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.100

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• One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dark, Woods, Hungry

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.226

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• Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits your ear. Keep the bass line moving so you don't stay in one spot: if you have an interesting bass line and you roll it against the melody, the chords are going to come out right.

  Paul Simon

  Moving, Thinking, Play

  "Paul Simon's Workshop at the Guitar Study Center" by Richard Albero and Fred Styles, Guitar Player, April 1975.

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