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• The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

  Albert Camus

  Silence, Sound, Ears

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• I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.

  Enya

  Travel, Journey, Piano

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

  Brian Eno

  Sound, Lines, Firsts

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• Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Writing, Historical Novels, Asking

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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

  Moving, Vocabulary, Islands

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.79, Macmillan

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• Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

  Michael W. Smith

  Records

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• After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

  Stanley Clarke

  Song, Nice, Opportunity

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• Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

  Lee Hazlewood

  Records, Lows, Strings

  "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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• After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

  Lee Konitz

  Simple, Years, Play

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• I really love writing themes and melody.

  Trevor Rabin

  Writing, Theme

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• If I was writing a song one night, I would leave the studio and come back the next day, and if I could remember the same melody on the same song, it was definitely something worth working more on. If I couldn't remember it, maybe there was a purpose about that.

  Trentemøller

  Song, Writing, Night

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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  Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

  Melody Beattie

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

  Johannes Brahms

  Real, Harmony, Used

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• Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.

  Ryan Tedder

  Song, Simple, Thinking

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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

  Sound, Flutes, Strange

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• Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Music, Beautiful, Simple

  Krishna Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore (1991). “Purabi: A Miscellany in Memory of Rabindranath Tagore 1941-1991”

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• Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

  Jerry Garcia

  Nice, Writing, Hunters

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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

  Writing, Thinking, Machines

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• Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

  Burt Bacharach

  Writing, People, Remember

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• A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

  Gordon Waller

  Ideas, Brilliant Ideas, Good Ideas

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• I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

  Michel Legrand

  Trying, Radio, Harmony

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• The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

  Enya

  Writing, Emotional, Moments

  "From the Heart". You Magazine Interview with Maureen Paton, January 08, 2006.

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• I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

  Teena Marie

  Beautiful, Running, Dream

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• A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Taken, Woody

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• In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.

  Tony Iommi

  Past, Way, Causes

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