Top 100 Quotes About Melody
#1. It was a scream, but it was also something like a song, too. It was like all the pain and sorrow in the world was being dredged up from the bottom of the earth and was twisting itself into a horrible, tortured melody.
Danielle Paige
#2. But my thoughts
breed truths
that my heart
can't
bare.
Like Melody.
Kenya Wright
#3. Today I will learn to reject shame. Shame is an overwhelming sense that who I am isn't good enough. I realize that I am good enough, and that my imperfections are part of being human. I let go of shame.
Melody Beattie
#4. Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.
Agnes Obel
#5. Tears have a whole different melody, didn't they? without the pain threaded through them?_ nineteen minutes .
Jodi Picoult
#6. Don't worry about how bad things look right now. It's all going to fall into place. You'll see.
Melody Carlson
#7. The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.
William Beebe
#8. Leo was the only one who had never petitioned Francie for a loan using The Nest as collateral. Jack and Melody and Bea had all asked at one time that she consider an earlier dispersal, but she stubbornly refused.Until Leo's accident.
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
#10. If you want to have a good friend, you first must be a good friend.
Melody Carlson
#11. The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on.
Bantu Holomisa
#12. When you wonder what is coming, tell yourself the best is coming, the very best life and love have to offer, the best God and His universe have to send. Then open your hands to receive it. It's yours.
Melody Beattie
#13. Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don't have to push yourself to give, do, or perform when what your body, mind, soul and emotions need is to heal.
Melody Beattie
#14. If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.
Rajneesh
#15. Caroline smiled and waved and blew kisses to both of them as she exited the building. But once outside she felt sad and let down, like the party was over and it was time to go home. And yet she remembered her promise to God. She was going to trust that he knew what was best for her.
Melody Carlson
#16. I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.
Andrae Crouch
#17. Are you available to travel? What kind of questions were these? Was the second one even allowed in a job interview? Still, she'd answered as best she could and finally read a question that made sense:
Melody Anne
#18. The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.
William Shakespeare
#19. You don't have to search so hard for meaning and destiny. If you focus on keeping yourself clear and in balance and you live from your heart, destiny and your highest-good path will unfold naturally at your feet.
Melody Beattie
#20. We strolled quietly along the edge of the lake. The water sang its soft melody against the rocks. We
Lacey Sturm
#22. They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.
Audie Murphy
#23. I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn.
Melody Beattie
#24. Zen: 'I kinda went about it all wrong last night, didn't I?
Melody: 'Kinda? It was a total fustercluck.'
Megan McCafferty
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. When you find your true love, you run to them. Don't walk, don't hide, you take them in your arms and never let them go.
Melody Anne
#29. I had a dream about you. I licked your cone of ice cream. It was envelope flavored.
Melody Sohayegh
#30. People fail all the time, it's what we're made to do. We all have moments of fear and weakness, we all stumble on rocks of bitter jealousy.
Melody Grace
#31. I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.
John Steinbeck
#32. Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.
Lee Hazlewood
#33. Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.
Melody Beattie
#34. When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.
Melody Beattie
#35. I have people calling me cute. Like I'm a fucking puppy!" she sneered at me, pushing me aside in order to continue on her way. "I am Melody Giovanni Callahan, cute is not the adjective used to describe me!
J.J. McAvoy
#36. Skin color doesn't make you different,' Melody said. 'We're all the same on the inside.' 'The only people who ever say that,' Raymon replied, 'are white.
Jodi Picoult
#37. The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future.
Melody Carstairs
#38. My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
Barry McGuire
#39. I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.
Ariel Pink
#40. Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write them down and figure out how to use that in a melody to write a song.
Leon Bridges
#41. Preparing to improvise is at a level commensurate with mastering the structure in a European classical piece. Another way to define improvisation is spontaneous melody. In order to improvise, a player first needs to have memorized and analyzed the harmonic structure of so many pieces.
Jimmy Heath
#42. 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
#43. It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.
Madeleine L'Engle
#44. He's like a song she can't get out of her head. Hard as she tries, the melody of their meeting runs through her mind on an endless loop, each time as surprisingly sweet as the last, like a lullaby, like a hymn, and she doesn't think she could ever get tired of hearing it.
Jennifer E. Smith
#45. I like to get a vibe first, then a melody and really beat up the melody for a while, then try and find a lyric that really suits him/her.
Matt Squire
#46. He starts to hum, a haunting melody. No words ride the music, only the familiar notes of a forgotten song.
A.G. Howard
#47. Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.
Melody Beattie
#48. It was a gentle love, a tactile love. It was all hands and lips and hearts in tandem. There was motion in our bodies and emotion in our discourse. We were a symphony of melody and melancholy. When you find peace in another's presence, there is no mistaken.
Lang Leav
#49. There's always a melody running around in my mind and my brain; and I'm really thankful for it.
John Debney
#50. The requiem has started, and when the last melody plays, the only applause will be sweet, eternal silence.
Julie Kagawa
#51. 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
#52. As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything's moving forward, and it's all linear.
David Sanborn
#53. I have a 'Play The Melody' philosophy. It means don't over arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody-and do it the simplest way possible.
Jackie Gleason
#54. 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
#55. Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.
Melody Beattie
#56. I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom or the words that might inspire hope and courage in the face of fear. My weapons are peaceful, for it is only by peace that peace can be attained. The song of freedom must prevail.
Paul Robeson
#57. T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings.
Charles De Lint
#58. [On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other - also for diction. Her words paint.
Mary Russell Mitford
#59. The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.
George Benson
#60. You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.
Dennis Brown
#61. 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
#62. If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.
Jodi Picoult
#63. I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff.
Guy Pearce
#64. A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.
Melody Beattie
#65. I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.
A.R. Rahman
#66. Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.
Melody Beattie
#67. I am in love,
I became an angel;
flowers bloom with my touch,
birds comes to me and sing love song,
air touches my cheeks to feel my love,
leaves are dancing around me with the melody of love.
Oh love, I am in love, I am the love.
Debasish Mridha
#68. After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.
Lee Konitz
#69. A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.
Gordon Waller
#70. I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project.
Jon Foreman
#71. With a good melody ... music gets me through everything.
Drake Bell
#72. 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
#73. Plato defines melody to consist of harmony, number and words: harmony naked of itself, words the ornament of harmony, number the common friend and uniter of them both.
John Dowland
#74. 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
#75. Telling someone who is manic that she's manic is like telling a dictator that he's a dick. Neither is going to admit it, and both are willing to torture you to prove their points.
Melody Moezzi
#76. In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.
David Byrne
#77. Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.
Melody Beattie
#78. Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.
Charles R. Swindoll
#79. I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.
Nina Nesbitt
#80. We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without. p 167
love always found itself again.
Melody Beattie
#81. They forgot their lives for a moment, abandoned all fear, every thought and troubling notion carried away on the back of the breathtaking melody.
Shawn Mihalik
#84. Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.
Dan Bejar
#85. What if?..
What if I am all to see?
What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss?
What if love is only pain? And nothing can be gained by living everyday
And there is no better way?
What then?
Melody Carlson
#86. As a kid, on the cotton fields, I had this tune in my head. I hummed it and sang it. It was the same melody as 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' I could never, ever forget it.
Percy Sledge
#87. 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
#88. I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.
Melody Carlson
#89. Today I will do something just for the fun of it. I will find something to do that's just for me and I won't worry about what I should be doing. I will learn how to make myself feel good and enjoy life to the fullest.
Melody Beattie
#90. And to the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.
Melody Carlson
#91. I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody ... I am old fashioned.
Toru Takemitsu
#92. If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.
Steven Tyler
#93. If she'd kept up her AAA membership, she would have called them, but after the divorce, she'd had to cut some things out. Roadside assistance was one of them. Aargh.
Melody Snow Monroe
#94. God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#96. Sometimes it's good to take a break. Just as long as you remember it's only a break.
Melody Carlson
#97. In an instant, everything in the room came alive. Like the sunshine had a melody and the sounds of footsteps had a texture I could feel in my fingertips each time anyone moved
Kiera Cass
#98. Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#99. Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart ... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#100. Step one, accept she was a damn boss. Step two, hide all the knives, guns, and maybe the pillows, too.
J.J. McAvoy
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