Melody Quotes

• Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Music, Beautiful, Life Is Like

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• Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine. - James Carstairs

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Said, Mines

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• Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.

  William S. Burroughs

  Love, Heartbreak, Haunting

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• A pretty girl is like a melody. That haunts you night and day.

  Irving Berlin

  Love, Girl, Night

  "A Pretty Girl Is like a Melody" (song) (1919)

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• Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

  Socrates

  Profound, Silence, Noise

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• Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.

  William Wordsworth

  Music, Sweet, Distance

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.185

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• Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving, Silence, Dancer

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• The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music. While the technique should be as perfected as possible, that is a lesser essential Anybody can acquire a brilliant technique Melody alone permits a work to survive.

  Darius Milhaud

  Writing, Self, Secret

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• Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour
  A thousand melodies unheard before.

  Samuel Rogers

  Heart, Feelings, Thousand

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

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Soul

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• The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

  W. H. Auden

  Music, Beautiful, Simple

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• With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

  Drake Bell

  "Mr. Karaoke". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2006.

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• The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

  Irving Berlin

  Positive, Music, Death

  Title of song (1927)

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• I've forgotten many things, but I'll never forget a melody.

  Michael Jackson

  Never Forget, Forget, Forgotten

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• Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Teacher, Soul, Needs

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

  Pablo Casals

  Heart, Paper

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The secret of a great melody is a secret.

  Dave Brubeck

  Writing, Secret, Songwriting

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• Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make a very simple melody really different. You can also have a complex melody. The more complex it is, the harder it is to sing, and then sometimes it can sound contrived. You could write a melody that would be fine on a saxophone but if you give it to a singer, it can sound raunchy.

  Donald Fagen

  Writing, Simple, Giving

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• There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.

  George Jones

  Song, World, Lost

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.

  Carlos Santana

  Heart, Way, Language

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• Music creates order out of chaos.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Music, Order, Continuity Of Life

  "Symboles Dans la Vie Et Dans L'art". Book by George Whalley, p. 29, 1987.

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• I really believe in melody.

  Aulis Sallinen

  Believe, Believe In Me

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• Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Remembrance, Quality, Ears

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• A melody is not merely something you can hum.

  Aaron Copland

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• Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

  Michael Bolton

  Powerful, Different, Elements

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