There are choirs singing in your head. If you listen, you will hear the music. It is the song of angels. Pay no attention to the sounds of the world. They are just noises, and even when added up all together they have no value, make no sense. Strain to hear the song of angels. Listen to the melody within your soul.
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.
I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
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.
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
I really believe in melody.
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.
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.
Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.
As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.
There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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