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Melody Quotes

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The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.
Merle Haggard

I lament the lack of catchy tunes in modern music that one can hum or whistle.
Authors on Melody Quotes: Zach Condon Cassandra Clare Aaron Copland Diane Warren John Ruskin Wooden Wand Lisa McMann Elton John Lin-Manuel Miranda Steven Tyler Ariel Pink Alexis Taylor Michael W. Smith Patti Smith Nina Nesbitt Sean Kingston Drake Joe Walsh Margaret Wise Brown Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hoodie Allen Eric Church Jarvis Cocker Sting William Beckett Andrew Bird Michel Legrand Paul Robeson Nobuo Uematsu Shawn Colvin Drake Bell Matt Costa Gerry Mulligan
2.
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
Franz Liszt

3.
They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.
Audie Murphy

4.
Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.
Eric Church

5.
Inside the silence is a melody.
Joe Walsh

6.
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.
Johannes Brahms

7.
I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.
Tom Araya

8.
I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.
Freddie Mercury

9.
Melody is the essence of music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

10.
Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
Mika

11.
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
Pablo Casals

12.
Every heart has its own melody.
Cassandra Clare

13.
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
Aaron Copland

14.
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
Gerry Mulligan

15.
With a good melody... music gets me through everything.
Drake Bell

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A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.
Margaret Wise Brown

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Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
Steven Tyler

18.
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape.
Ludwig van Beethoven

19.
A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.
I. L. Peretz

20.
You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.
Zach Condon

21.
I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.
Drake

22.
Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.
Michael W. Smith

23.
It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
Adam Duritz

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The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.
Thomas Carlyle

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We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.
Adam Rich

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All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
Carter Burwell

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

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I really believe in melody.
Aulis Sallinen

29.
I always begin to compose the melody first.
Nobuo Uematsu

30.
I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.
Robert Cray

31.
I really love writing themes and melody.
Trevor Rabin

32.
A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.
Gordon Waller

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Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.
Shawn Colvin

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I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.
Fred Durst

36.
You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.
William P. Young

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I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.
Nina Nesbitt

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Without you hearing a melody or music or anything like that, it would say something to you. So, that's what a song is to me. Now, you have a lot of songs that come out, and the beat carries them over there, because of the beat, and because of some other factors and so on and so forth. But I want mine to be a song, if you read it, it's going to mean something to you.
Smokey Robinson

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What makes a great song - you dont put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.
Diane Warren

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I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level
Paul Taylor

41.
I love melodies so it's usually where I start.
Sydney Sierota

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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

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I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.
Ariel Pink

44.
Hope sings when all melodies are gone.
John C. Maxwell

45.
There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.
John Ruskin

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Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine. - James Carstairs
Cassandra Clare

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I came up with the "We are explorers," with sort of a counter-melody to [Opetaia Foa'i] melody. And so, it happened so organically, that it really, to me, is the most emblematic of our collaboration.
Lin-Manuel Miranda

48.
Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.
Lisa McMann

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The melody is generally what the piece is all about.
Aaron Copland

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Good melody is never out of fashion
Robert Bridges