Melody Quotes - Page 27

• Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and sound good together and suit the melody, I think most of the best songs in the world are fairly clear about what they mean to say.

  J. Robbins

  Song, Mean, Thinking

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.

  Gilbert Parker

  Song, Sweet, Pain

  Gilbert Parker (2008). “The Judgment House (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

  David Guetta

  Emotional, Clubs, Radio

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

  Aberjhani

  Light, Air, Tone

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.16, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Art Of War, Giving

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me strong.

  Christina Rossetti

  Inspirational, Song, Strong

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.52, Delphi Classics

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• The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not close the keyboard and allow the instrument to gather dust. We must seek out other artists of the spirit, new friends who gradually will help us to find the road to life again, who will walk the road with us.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Artist, Grieving, Dust

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Sleep, Night

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

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• The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sublime, Brain, Consciousness

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• I have a Bird in spring
  Which for myself doth sing -
  The spring decoys.
  And as the summer nears -
  And as the Rose appears,
  Robin is gone.
  Yet do I not repine
  Knowing that Bird of mine
  Though flown -
  Learneth beyond the sea
  Melody new for me
  And will return.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Spring, Sea

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.244, Delphi Classics

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• When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody

  Charles Hamilton Aide

  Lying, Heart, World

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• There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are often the simplest.

  Ken Hensley

  Song, Temptation, Facts

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• Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

  Reba McEntire

  Music, Song, Thinking

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• Hope sings when all melodies are gone.

  John C. Maxwell

  Hope, Gone

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• Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.

  Zach Condon

  Listening, Important, Millions

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• Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.

  Michio Kaku

  Play, Chemistry, Strings

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. 16 June, 2010.

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• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

  John Keats

  Music, Spiritual, Sweet

  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 11 (1820)

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• Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

  Maureen Forrester

  Beautiful, People, Singing

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• My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all.

  Zach Condon

  Harmony, My Thoughts, Ifs

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• Singing a melody is like a lot of easier and when you sing harmony you have to really kind of know music and listen to the music and be able to hear the notes or whatever.

  Kenan Thompson

  Singing, Kind, Harmony

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I really love things with melody.

  Norah Jones

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• We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wine, Play, Poison

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• Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I think my greatest achievement has been to create unexpected melodies and harmonies within a rock and roll framework. And as a producer I would like to be remembered as someone who was able to sustain a band of unquestionable individual talent, and push it to the forefront during its working career. I think I really captured the best of our output, growth, change and maturity on tape - the multifaceted gem that is Led Zeppelin.

  Jimmy Page

  Thinking, Maturity, Rocks

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• Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Horse, Essence, Fine

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1926). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist Revealed in His Own Words”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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