Melody Quotes - Page 11

• Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

  Colin Meloy

  Style, Upbeat, Pops

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are a lot of unspoken things with me and Nimai [Larson]. We're very yin and yang, neither one of us really treads on each other's toes. She's this wizard of the rhythm world, and I know nothing about that, but I can dabble with melody and lyrics and that's something she doesn't really have any interest in. We complement each other in that way.

  Taraka Larson

  Yang, Wizards, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are so many great artists out there; it's hard to choose one. But, I would love to work with Ledisi; she has a great voice. I also admire and respect John Legend. When he wrote "All of Me," I fell in love with the melody and music. He is an artist that really loves music and just has a great way with words.

  Heather Headley

  Artist, Voice, Legends

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Imagine Eminem writing a play with complex raps and syllables, and melodies flowing in and out. That's what it was like for me listening to Lin-Manuel Miranda, it was incredible. So it just goes to show that if you put your teaching style in a certain form, that will attract the attention of the people you are trying to teach.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Rap, Teaching, Writing

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Chance the Rapper: if you listen to his narrative and the subject matter he covers in his music, you can see that he's strong, courageous and shows vulnerability. He asks some very poignant questions in his music and is still very melodic. The harmony and the melody of the music allows you to also come in closer.

  MC Hammer

  Strong, Rapper, Matter

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I really like the melody "Red Wine Is Good For My Heart" and people respond to it. I decided to put it on the album.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Heart, Wine, People

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• I'm not a one-stop music shop with jazz improv in aisle 3 and country and western in aisle 4. I have a fairly focused and established kind of melody and approach, so people know what they're getting into when they go into business with me.

  Charlie Clouser

  Country, People, Jazz

  "Nine Inch Nails' Charlie Clouser makes American Horror Story and Saw sound creepy". Interview With Alex McLevy, www.avclub.com. July 2, 2016.

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• In fact, I love singing. I just have a small problem with pitch, tune, melody, and lyrics. But that's never stopped me.

  Kevin Daniels

  Small Problems, Singing, Tunes

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• There are songs and melody that make you really happy. And there are spiritual gifts that you have - giving these gifts away sometimes gives you that feeling of inspiration. These seconds of awareness make you realize that any second can be your favorite one, and it really is up to you.

  Russell Simmons

  Spiritual, Song, Inspiration

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• I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.

  DJ Ashba

  Writing, Skills, Age

  "Guns N' Roses DJ Ashba: On Overcoming Obstacles with a Guitar". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• Sometimes, I actually end up doing three or four different versions of one song, and sometimes, those versions can be done very differently. They can be very laid back, downtempo, or sometimes the same song can be quite uptempo. But it is always the same melody and chord progressions.

  Trentemøller

  Song, Laid Back, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it all comes back to the individual. My instrument's just a pile of metal and wood! If you listen to the way I speak I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument that concept comes through very clearly. In fact some people who've seen me play have noticed that I'm singing - but it's more that I'm actually speaking. So it's not really about the instrument. But for me, in my thinking, the music is all about the melody. When I compose, 99 percent of the time I start with the melody.

  Stefon Harris

  Thinking, People, Singing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made it up,' she thought. Then it came to her - the name of the song and all its lyrics just as she had heard it many times before. She sat on the edge of the bed thinking, 'There aren't any more new songs and I have sung all the ones there are. I have sung them all. I have sung all the songs there are.

  Toni Morrison

  Song, Thinking, Names

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• 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

  Voice, Missing, Lines

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

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• The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal... It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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• My love is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: My love is like the melody That's sweetly played in tune. How fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in love am I; And I will love thee still, my dear, Till all the seas gang dry. Till all the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt with the sun; I will love thee still, my dear, While the sands of life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only love. And fare thee weel awhile! And I will come again, my love, Though it were ten thousand mile.

  Robert Burns

  Running, Art, Love Is

  Robert Burns, “A Red, Red Rose”

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• I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, Of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to fall like water on my head, And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow! There is a magic made by melody: A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep To the subaqueous stillness of the sea, And floats forever in a moon-green pool, Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Dream, Song, Fall

  Elizabeth Bishop (2008). “Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters”

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• I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

  Tom Waits

  Music, Beautiful, Terrible

  "Tom Waits: A Raspy Voice Heads To The Hall Of Fame". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 21, 2002.

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• And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Moon, Sparrows, Moments

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• 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

  Christmas, Song, Xmas

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1985). “Journey Into Christmas and Other Stories”, p.207, U of Nebraska Press

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• If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Cute, Relationship

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Mar 22, 2012

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• Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Fashion, Beach, Lying

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1312, eBookIt.com

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• They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in God's gardens they keep still, like many, many intervals in his might and melody. Only when they spread their wings are they wakers of a wind: as if God with his broad sculptor- hands leafed through the pages in the dark book of the beginning.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dream, Book, Tired

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Book of Images”, p.31, North Point Press

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• The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Garden, Light

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• Now they are a circle, and they vibrate together, they pulsate together. Their hearts are no longer separate, their beats are no longer separate, they have become a melody, a harmony. It is the greatest music possible, all other musics are just faint things compared to it, shadow things compared to it.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Heart

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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