melody Quotes and Quotations
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melody Quotes and Quotations
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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 | top
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You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody. Dennis Brown | top
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The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | top
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I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time. Danny Elfman | top
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I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain. Enya | top
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We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. Art Garfunkel | top
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We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody. Colin Greenwood | top
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There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state. Stephan Jenkins | top
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Every soul is a melody which needs renewing. Stephane Mallarme | top
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Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. Yehudi Menuhin | top
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As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody. Alanis Morissette | top
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They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that. Audie Murphy | top
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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 | top
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I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody. Scott Patterson | top
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I really love writing themes and melody. Trevor Rabin | top
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Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it. Trevor Rabin | top
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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 | top
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So, 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 | top
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Music is the melody whose text is the world. Arthur Schopenhauer | top
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My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it. Paul Simon | top
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Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out. Paul Simon | top
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I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it. Britney Spears | top
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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 | top
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Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all. Steven Tyler | top
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The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island. Derek Walcott | top