Melody Quotes - Page 3

Even if I have a quite strong melody, there are so many possibilities and so many directions that you can take the music.

I find that the rhythm of going on long walks will suggest melodies.

I think country has the biggest melodies ever.

Good melody is never out of fashion

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

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

John Coltrane, he talks to god. He starts playing his solo, he might play for 14 minutes. For 14 minutes, it seems like he's talking to god, but he always takes a hold of the melody.

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

I really love things with melody.

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

I don't believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them.

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

I really tried to go for that sound of the '60s pop melodies but I'm living in the present so that makes it contemporary. I like to pretend I'm outside of myself and that is what the recordings and the process helped me to do.

Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.

I came up with the "We are explorers," with sort of a counter-melody to [Opetaia Foa'i] melody. And so, it happened so organically, that it really, to me, is the most emblematic of our collaboration.

There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.

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.

Often people poopoo melody as if it's a cheap trick to make people like things, but in my experience it's the hardest part of the tune, to find something that doesn't immediately remind you of something that's happened before.

I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

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

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.

Sometimes the word dictated the melody.