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.
With a good melody... music gets me through everything.
Drake Bell
12.
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
Pablo Casals
15.
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
Gerry Mulligan
16.
Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
Steven Tyler
17.
A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.
Margaret Wise Brown
18.
A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.
I. L. Peretz
20.
I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.
Drake
21.
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
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.
I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.
Robert Cray
26.
A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.
Gordon Waller
27.
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
28.
One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.
Shawn Colvin
29.
I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.
Fred Durst
30.
The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.
Thomas Carlyle
31.
We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.
Adam Rich
32.
All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
Carter Burwell
33.
I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.
Ryan Tedder
36.
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
38.
I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.
Nina Nesbitt
39.
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
40.
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
41.
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
42.
I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.
Ariel Pink
45.
There's a big difference between the Arabic and Western scales. One uses quarter tone system and one doesn't. So in order for me to compose real Arabic scale melodies, I would need an Arabic keyboard, and I don't have one. So I had to compose Arabesque melodies.
Ayshay
46.
God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.
Mitch Albom
47.
Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.
Elton John
48.
He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.
Melissa de la Cruz
49.
I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom
Paul Robeson
50.
While the business of "collecting" lyrics and melodies happens all the time, when it's time to corral them all into something, I have to be in a good mood, ready and willing to work.
Wooden Wand