Top 100 Melody Music Sayings

#1. Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?

Robert Bridges

Melody Music Sayings #35156
#2. It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.

Jodi Picoult

Melody Music Sayings #36409
#3. For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

Herbie Mann

Melody Music Sayings #36644
#4. I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

John Steinbeck

Melody Music Sayings #44423
#5. I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

Ariel Pink

Melody Music Sayings #56218
#6. I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.

Dave Barry

Melody Music Sayings #61191
#7. He starts to hum, a haunting melody. No words ride the music, only the familiar notes of a forgotten song.

A.G. Howard

Melody Music Sayings #73980
#8. But nobody is born being able to hear [intervals], and many people never master them. Some people never even notice that "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and "The Alphabet Song" follow the same melody (and hence consist of the same sequence of intervals).

Gary F. Marcus

Melody Music Sayings #80621
#9. I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

Eddie Vedder

Melody Music Sayings #86573
#10. T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings.

Charles De Lint

Melody Music Sayings #94511
#11. Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but mankind is moved to devotion, virtue, joy, and sorrow.

Christoph Wolff

Melody Music Sayings #99423
#12. With a good melody ... music gets me through everything.

Drake Bell

Melody Music Sayings #120410
#13. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

Khalil Gibran

Melody Music Sayings #124036
#14. From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

James Nasmyth

Melody Music Sayings #126629
#15. The melody of music makes my heart merry.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Melody Music Sayings #136102
#16. I think that a great song needs the full package. I think that a great song needs everything from lyrics, to melody, to music, and it needs to be interesting and it needs take you in and swallow you and swish you around, and then regurgitate you back in better form.

William Beckett

Melody Music Sayings #141631
#17. Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Melody Music Sayings #150554
#18. Music always rode the air until he felt each beat through his whole body. But the air here was full of energy that sparked and rejoiced with the melody.

Brigid Kemmerer

Melody Music Sayings #165750
#19. Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.

Zach Condon

Melody Music Sayings #177517
#20. Music allows a person to express their deepest thoughts, thoughts that cannot be expressed with just words. I am often asked how I begin a song or develop a melody from nothing. That is the spiritual aspect of creating. Finding something deep within yourself that can only be created by you.

Bradley Joseph

Melody Music Sayings #180925
#21. But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

Reba McEntire

Melody Music Sayings #184382
#22. My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

Paul Twitchell

Melody Music Sayings #192850
#23. Music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

Pearl S. Buck

Melody Music Sayings #199119
#24. Love moves in sync with the cadence of forgiveness, sings in tune with the melody of acceptance, and dances in rhythm with the music of companionship.

Steve Maraboli

Melody Music Sayings #210604
#25. The music became a siren song. The melody was my lodestone, and I was powerless against its lure. With each step, I savored the dampness of the grass beneath my bare feet. I didn't remember when I'd lost my shoes.

Sarah J. Maas

Melody Music Sayings #215845
#26. And soon they were rolling on again, leaving Treegap behind, and as they went, the tinkling little melody of a music box drifted out behind them and was lost at last far down the road.

Natalie Babbitt

Melody Music Sayings #232099
#27. My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.

Ruta Sepetys

Melody Music Sayings #256161
#28. In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here.

Danny Elfman

Melody Music Sayings #259420
#29. The music gushed from the loudspeaker in a swirl of shadowed melody. Since Vienna died, all waltzes are shadowed. (I'll be waiting)

Raymond Chandler

Melody Music Sayings #289194
#30. The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally - like, when you've even played a recorder, or whatever, it becomes a lot easier to hear the beauty in a bird's song, or the quiet tune in a gentle rustle of the wind.

Dave Smalley

Melody Music Sayings #289630
#31. Let us feel love, in the sight of our foes.
Let our hearts melt, of the sight of hungry ones.
Let us sing the music of forgiveness,
the melody of love.

M.Padua

Melody Music Sayings #290180
#32. Truth, she believed, lies in what is said as much as in what isn't, in the same way that a melody not only is a sequence of audible notes but encompasses the spaces and pauses in between. When listening to music, you must learns to take in even the atmosphere of an echo.

Vaddey Ratner

Melody Music Sayings #305471
#33. I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.

Vance Gilbert

Melody Music Sayings #309168
#34. I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

Jack White

Melody Music Sayings #327641
#35. Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.

Aloe Blacc

Melody Music Sayings #338640
#36. Melody is the essence of music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Melody Music Sayings #360197
#37. My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.

Alan Hovhaness

Melody Music Sayings #369400
#38. She heard melody and harmony and counterpoint; he heard something calling him from far, far away.

Robert Hellenga

Melody Music Sayings #386511
#39. There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.

John Ruskin

Melody Music Sayings #389321
#40. Song like a rose should be;
Each rhyme a petal sweet;
For fragrance, melody,
That when her lips repeat
The words, her heart may know
What secret makes them so.
Love, only Love.

Frank Dempster Sherman

Melody Music Sayings #405978
#41. The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

Richard Wagner

Melody Music Sayings #413259
#42. Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. ... thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

Plato

Melody Music Sayings #420869
#43. Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

Tony Snow

Melody Music Sayings #432974
#44. Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

Terry Riley

Melody Music Sayings #437077
#45. We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

Dave Haywood

Melody Music Sayings #444735
#46. He took in a premeditated breath, closed his eyes, and exhaled into the nye at his lips, playing a new tune.
It was not the sad music of waiting. Nor
was it a melody of his heritage. It was a call to the earth. To Allah. To
the country within him.

Susan Abulhawa

Melody Music Sayings #458349
#47. Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

Melody Music Sayings #491729
#48. The doctor used to tell me that every person about to die becomes a music box playing the melody that best describes his life, his character, and his hopes. For some, it's a popular waltz; for others, a march.

Patrick Modiano

Melody Music Sayings #491750
#49. While silently brooding, I am drawn to the start of a sweet melody that travels to my ear from afar. I smile, reminded that my heart can dance when my feet can't.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Melody Music Sayings #502470
#50. The beautiful thing is, music can be like a time machine. One song- the lyrics, the melody, the mood- can take you back to a moment in time like nothing else can.

Lisa Schroeder

Melody Music Sayings #507438
#51. Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

Beck

Melody Music Sayings #544829
#52. When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.

Sam Shepard

Melody Music Sayings #557400
#53. What are words without the melody?

Shannon L. Alder

Melody Music Sayings #596501
#54. I grew up with The Beatles, Bob Marley and Talking Heads. I like the melody-with-rhythm aspect of music - there's so much to discover still.

Albert Hammond Jr.

Melody Music Sayings #598745
#55. Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Melody Music Sayings #602696
#56. Each stroke of your fingers is a different word that describes the story. By itself it's meaningless, but - " I pushed down on a few fingers helping her play a few notes. "String them together and you have a melody. You have a story. So, Saylor, what story do you want to tell?

Rachel Van Dyken

Melody Music Sayings #603213
#57. Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

Eric Church

Melody Music Sayings #616343
#58. As he hums the melody softly into my ear, I can feel the notes seep deep into my skin and bones, and birth an ache in my soul I never knew existed. What is this, if not impossible?

Ashley Poston

Melody Music Sayings #635876
#59. The Egyptians rated music highly, and Plato considered their music superior to the Greek, both for melody and energy. But harmony and rhythm were always subordinated to the words, and the subject-matter was paramount.

James Teackle Dennis

Melody Music Sayings #645513
#60. It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

Adam Duritz

Melody Music Sayings #646946
#61. Yet I questioned not why destiny does play a cruel melody at times for I knew that each note had a purpose within the symphony of life.

Raneem Kayyali

Melody Music Sayings #657605
#62. The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you've got to really listen hard to somebody who's doing a good melody and a good lyric.

Barry Manilow

Melody Music Sayings #660814
#63. Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Melody Music Sayings #663239
#64. That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.

Thomas Hardy

Melody Music Sayings #667970
#65. In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.

Cat Stevens

Melody Music Sayings #679172
#66. Music Doesn't Need Interpreters and Translators

Ellen J. Barrier

Melody Music Sayings #683173
#67. Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.

Jonny Greenwood

Melody Music Sayings #689508
#68. Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?

Burning Spear

Melody Music Sayings #698039
#69. And there were the warm spaces in the music I loved the most, openings through which I could enter and lay my burdens down. There, behind the groove and riding on the melody, I was complete and free.

Rashod Ollison

Melody Music Sayings #698628
#70. Life is a song made of the musical rhythm of the body, words of the mind and the melodious silence of the soul.

Banani Ray

Melody Music Sayings #704906
#71. There come to one's soul heavenly thoughts as he joins in heavenly expressions coupled with heavenly melody.

David B. Haight

Melody Music Sayings #719104
#72. He honestly believed, for an instant, that what he'd heard was music-a tune piped, a burble of notes, a little scrap of melody floating by on wind and breaking his heart.

Anne Tyler

Melody Music Sayings #760543
#73. A French friend brought over a load of Gainsbourg vinyl and I worked my way through it: by the time I got to L'Histoire De Melody Nelson (1969) I was thinking, 'How can this man have died before I got to know his music?' I was a convert.

Sylvie Simmons

Melody Music Sayings #777658
#74. Sound filled the room, a crystal melody that could lift any human heart and turn away any devil.
It was "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake.

David Wong

Melody Music Sayings #784225
#75. Love is the sweetest melody of the soul and anything can be catalyst for that.

Amit Ray

Melody Music Sayings #786915
#76. Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Jean Genet

Melody Music Sayings #813361
#77. The four of us got back into the car. In an instant, I distinctly heard a "soundless music". It was the melody of friendship, the sound of a perfectly tuned quartet who got together by chance, four hearts playing in harmony.

You Jin

Melody Music Sayings #822173
#78. When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

Billy Crystal

Melody Music Sayings #835498
#79. Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.

Ellen J. Barrier

Melody Music Sayings #842163
#80. When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.

Jason Mraz

Melody Music Sayings #854835
#81. Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

William Beckett

Melody Music Sayings #855758
#82. Tristan was the soundtrack of my summer. The beat I walked to. The melody I breathed in and out. The lyrics I lived by.

Jessica Brody

Melody Music Sayings #877295
#83. We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn - the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perennial, like the music of the spheres.

William Mackergo Taylor

Melody Music Sayings #882920
#84. The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.

Gilbert Parker

Melody Music Sayings #897455
#85. My first experience with music was my father, he was a stereo buff and he built his own little Hi-Fi center with recorders and everything and I listened to a lot of jazz, which gave me a sensibility for melody.

Ronnie Montrose

Melody Music Sayings #903599
#86. I look at him for a moment. Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart. I come from a people of song and dance. I don't need him to tell me the power of words. But I smile nonetheless.

Pierce Brown

Melody Music Sayings #913421
#87. Michael Jackson will live forever through the thing that he put all of his life energy into: his music. I will do my part to keep the melody alive, to keep the energy forever changing form, but never ever dying!! Long live Michael Jackson.

Ne-Yo

Melody Music Sayings #923788
#88. The melody of a religious feeling is the music of life itself. To those who do not hear it I could not explain what it sounds like ... If the spark isn't smoldering somewhere inside one, no efforts can ever bring it into existence. Water cannot catch fire.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

Melody Music Sayings #939415
#89. Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point memos, music is as important as meaning. In fact, music can drive home the meaning of words.

Constance Hale

Melody Music Sayings #939889
#90. It seemed so simple in a lot of ways, to use a basic melody to pull away from myself. To ease the pain and hide my feelings deep within a metaphor that only I understood. I couldn't have foreseen that my quiet and dark night of the soul would start me down a path of expression through song.

Mike Ericksen

Melody Music Sayings #978583
#91. Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.

Aristotle.

Melody Music Sayings #981878
#92. Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Bruno Mars

Melody Music Sayings #995970
#93. We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

Adam Rich

Melody Music Sayings #1014162
#94. I'm a lot more sensitive about music, I think, than most other guys in this particular side of the business. Most of them are beat crazy and beat heavy. I'm more melody. I'm more musical than most of the other ones.

Frankie Knuckles

Melody Music Sayings #1038808
#95. Maybe she knew some day it would become my job. My job to complete the melody she had begun.

Tessa Emily Hall

Melody Music Sayings #1044911
#96. I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

Nayvadius Cash

Melody Music Sayings #1048966
#97. Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.

Pierce Brown

Melody Music Sayings #1053683
#98. Music creates order out of chaos; for rythem imposes unianimity upon the divergent, melody imposes contuniuty upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

Yehudi Menuhin

Melody Music Sayings #1059575
#99. I heard what I'd learned against my will to identify as new age music. Aimless and spacey, it meandered from unresolved keyboard chord to unresolved keyboard chord with some somnolent noodling in place of melody. Drooling pianos, music to sleepwalk by.

Timothy Hallinan

Melody Music Sayings #1097942
#100. Johnny Flora "The Spell of Zalanon" > quotable quote (edit)
"Every page of a great novel should be crafted like a beautiful melody, to linger on long after the music stops playing."
- Johnny Flora "The Spell of Zalanon

Johnny Flora

Melody Music Sayings #1117076

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