Melody Quotes

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.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

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

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

Inside the silence is a melody.

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

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

Melody is the essence of music.

Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

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

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

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

Every heart has its own melody.

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

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

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I always begin to compose the melody first.

I really believe in melody.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.

I really love writing themes and melody.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.

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

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.

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

Hope sings when all melodies are gone.

I love melodies so it's usually where I start.

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

Often people poopoo melody as if it's a cheap trick to make people like things, but in my experience it's the hardest part of the tune, to find something that doesn't immediately remind you of something that's happened before.

I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

Even if I have a quite strong melody, there are so many possibilities and so many directions that you can take the music.

I really tried to go for that sound of the '60s pop melodies but I'm living in the present so that makes it contemporary. I like to pretend I'm outside of myself and that is what the recordings and the process helped me to do.