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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 Robert Bridges Audie Murphy Mitch Albom Paul Taylor Freddie Mercury Tom Araya Melissa de la Cruz Gordon Waller Willie Nelson Adam Rich Johannes Brahms Ryan Tedder Smokey Robinson Aulis Sallinen Mika Pete Seeger Norah Jones Trentemøller Aino Jawo Merle Haggard Pablo Casals Franz Liszt Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Carter Burwell John C. Maxwell I. L. Peretz Robert Cray Ayshay Mick Jagger Herb Alpert
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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

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Inside the silence is a melody.
Joe Walsh

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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

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

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

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Melody is the essence of music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
Mika

11.
With a good melody... music gets me through everything.
Drake Bell

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

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Every heart has its own melody.
Cassandra Clare

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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I really love writing themes and melody.
Trevor Rabin

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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

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

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

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I really believe in melody.
Aulis Sallinen

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I always begin to compose the melody first.
Nobuo Uematsu

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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

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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 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

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

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

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God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.
Mitch Albom

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Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.
Elton John

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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

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He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.
Melissa de la Cruz

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I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom
Paul Robeson

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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