1.
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.
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
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
10.
Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
Mika
11.
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
Pablo Casals
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
16.
A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.
Margaret Wise Brown
17.
Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
Steven Tyler
18.
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.
It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
Adam Duritz
23.
Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.
Michael W. Smith
24.
One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.
Shawn Colvin
25.
I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.
Fred Durst
26.
The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.
Thomas Carlyle
27.
We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.
Adam Rich
28.
All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
Carter Burwell
29.
I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.
Ryan Tedder
32.
I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.
Robert Cray
34.
A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.
Gordon Waller
35.
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
37.
I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.
Nina Nesbitt
38.
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
39.
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
40.
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
42.
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
43.
I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.
Ariel Pink
45.
I don't believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.
Mick Jagger
46.
Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.
William Beckett
47.
I find that the rhythm of going on long walks will suggest melodies.
Sting
48.
You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.
Herb Alpert
50.
Sometimes the word dictated the melody.
Andrew Bird