Melody Quotes - Page 21

• I think that in a certain sense, we're concerned about the same issues. How do you accent the progressive, the prophetic, those things that are critical of all forms of injustice, all forms of bigotry, all forms of dehumanizing other people, and yet still allow for a certain kind of flow, linguistic flow, certain kinds of melodies and harmonies in the samplings that take place?

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• I'm a lot more sensitive about music, I think, than most other guys in this particular side of the business. Most of them are beat crazy and beat heavy. I'm more melody. I'm more musical than most of the other ones.

  Frankie Knuckles

  Crazy, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

  Dan Bejar

  Important, Quitting, Like You

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

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• To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

  Quincy Jones

  Thinking, Voice, Symphony

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• I miss the romance. I keep saying this over and over again, but dance follows music. And if the accent today is percussion and rhythm and loudness, then that is the way the dance numbers will be. But it is pretty hard on romance with seven guitars, three drums, and no melody instruments in the band.

  Gene Kelly

  Guitar, Numbers, Romance

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Love is the sweetest melody of the soul and anything can be catalyst for that.

  Amit Ray

  Love Is, Soul, Catalyst

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• If the melodies are strong, it's much easier to see which way I can take them sound-wise.

  Trentemøller

  Wise, Strong, Sound

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Blue grass was the outgrowth of Irish music. As a matter of fact a lot the tunes, a lot of the melodies and the jigs... have different names but are actually the same tunes.

  Keith Getty

  Blue, Names, Tunes

  "Composer/performer Keith Getty is celebrating an Irish Christmas at venues across the USA". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. December 5, 2014.

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• When I start to write a song, I have the words and I have the melody, and then it's just a matter of making it to the end. I think if I have something that I could identify as a talent, it would be that I can finish a song. I kind of know intuitively where the melody should go.

  Lou Barlow

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I love to write and have the basic foundation of what the song's all about. Then once the drums are done it's time for fun for me, because I don't know what I'm going to sing yet, and melody-wise I don't even have my lyrics written.

  Kirk Windstein

  Wise, Song, Fun

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• There are some ideas that I know I have to try out before I find the right sound, before I find the right melody.

  Trentemøller

  Ideas, Trying, Sound

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted to make music that had really good melodies.

  Jarryd James

  Mind, Sound, Wanted

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• Maybe I'm not giving people in the audience enough credit for actually thinking about what they're singing, but it's awesome when a rock'n'roll groove and melody can transport something from Barometer Rising or whatever [ed: it's from 1958's The Watch That Ends the Night] into [Toronto's] Molson Ampitheatre and have people just owning it.

  Sarah Harmer

  Thinking, Night, Rocks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I look at melody as rhythm.

  Charlie Parker

  Looks, Rhythm, Look At Me

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• I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Moving, Stories

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• Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies, but when a melodic line is thwarted.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

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• I want to make meaningful music always - I think every artist does. We want our words and melodies to mean something to people, even if it is just one person.

  Darren Fletcher

  Meaningful, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Every time I would think about my purpose, the answers seemed to come in sounds.  In melodies.  In feelings.

  David Archuleta

  Thinking, Feelings, Sound

  David Archuleta (2010). “Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance”, p.127, Penguin

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• Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that’s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn’t change the fabric of things. This universe was not made for the fallen, only the redeemed.

  Geoffrey Wood

  Wish, Fabric, Noise

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• The Song of Love, the Song of Hate, the Songs of Praise and of Thanksgiving; I've learned them all, but there remains one called the Melody of Living.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Song, Hate, I've Learned

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• There are two thing you need for a jolly good hymn.The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of the worshipper.The second-and perhaps even more important- is a good tune..with a simple popular melody.

  John Betjeman

  Simple, Hymns, Two

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• I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Beautiful, Real

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.46, tredition

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• I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they live in my embrace. Every woman is to me the gift of a world. I revel in the melody of her countenance, and with a single glance of my eye I can enjoy more than others with their every limb through all their lives.

  Heinrich Heine

  Women, Eye, Yield

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.172

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• We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of harmonious voices, but still we have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard practical reality. When faith becomes obedience then it is true faith indeed.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Reality, Cities, Voice

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• Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.

  Mao Zedong

  Play, Piano, Differences

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.110, China Books

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