Melody Quotes - Page 9

• I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do with current events and what is going on in the news. You can call them topical songs, songs about the news, and then developing into more philosophical songs later.

  Phil Ochs

  Song, Philosophical, Writing

  Phil Ochs' testimony at the Chicago Seven trial, December 11, 1969.

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• It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our children may be in keys we've never tried. The melody of each generation emerges from all that's gone before. Each one of us contributes in some unique way to the composition of life.

  Fred Rogers

  Song, Children, Father

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.45, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Oh all the times I've listened, and all the times I've heard All the melodies I'm missing, and all the magic words, And all those potent voices, and the choices we had then, How I'd love to find we had that kind of choice again.

  Harry Chapin

  Voice, Choices, Missing

  Song: Remember When The Music, Album: Sequel, 1981

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• Love is the key-note of the universe-- The theme, the melody.

  Henry Abbey

  Love, Keys, Notes

  Henry Abbey (1879). “Poems”

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• My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love. When the gentle fingers of Music knock at the door of our feelings, they awaken memories that have long lain hidden in the depths of the Past. The sad strains of Music bring us mournful recollections; and her quiet strains bring us joyful memories. The sound of strings makes us weep at the departure of a dear one, or makes us smile at the peace God has bestowed upon us.

  Khalil Gibran

  Memories, Past, Doors

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• To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

  Isak Dinesen

  Patterns, Fantasy, Infinite

  Interview with Bent Mohn, The New York Times Book Review, November 3, 1957.

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• Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats, Like melody of spring-bird, notes; When the blue halcyon gently laves His plumage in the flashing waves.

  Benjamin

  Dream, Spring, Sunset

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• Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Mirrors, Musical

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• The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

  Aaron Copland

  Pieces

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• My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Beautiful, Healing, People

  "Alan Hovhaness Biographical Summary" by Marco Shirodkar, www.hovhaness.com.

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• There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing

  Black Francis

  Song, Kings, Reading

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• Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your soul, all functioning in such a harmony, in such wholeness, humming so beautifully... that they are in a melody, they are one. Your whole being - body, mind, soul - is involved in meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Mean, Meditation

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• What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.

  Dave Grohl

  Inspirational, Song, Missing

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• The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first and then I get really obsessed with arranging, adding, and subtracting parts. The last step of the process, for me, is finding words that fit into that structure and figuring out exactly what I want to talk about.

  Mikal Cronin

  Want, Lasts, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock Factory. Tim and Todd run the northern plant in Cleveland, and I've got the southern plant down here in Dayton. No tours permitted.

  Robert Pollard

  Running, Writing, Rocks

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• Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.

  William Wordsworth

  Music, Sweet, Distance

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.185

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• Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep And, Wordsworth, both are thine.

  William Wordsworth

  Sleep, Two, Voice

  William Wordsworth (1954). “The prelude: with a selection from the shorter poems, the sonnets, The recluse, and The excursion, and three essays on the art of poetry”, Harcourt College Pub

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• When the uniqueness of a place sings to us like a melody, then we will know, at last, what it means to be home

  Paul Gruchow

  Home, Mean, Lasts

  Paul Gruchow (1988). “The Necessity of Empty Places”

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• Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.

  John Keats

  Eye, Ease, Dry

  'Shed no tear - O shed no tear' (written 1819)

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• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

  John Keats

  Song, Sweet, Kissing

  'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1820) st. 2

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• I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there.

  David Byrne

  Song, Beats, Chords

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

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• I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.

  Julian Lennon

  Lying, Feelings, Bed

  "Mindful Music: The Creation of ‘Everything Changes’ With Julian Lennon". Interview with Ronald Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa— Who knows most, knows least.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Horse, Italian

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1961). “Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke: in Verbindung mit den Mozartstädten, Augsburg, Salzburg und Wien”

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• Good melody is never out of fashion

  Robert Bridges

  Fashion

  Robert Bridges (1927). “Collected Essays, Papers, Etc”, Georg Olms Verlag

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• Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?

  Robert Bridges

  Running, Lying, Night

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