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• Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock Factory. Tim and Todd run the northern plant in Cleveland, and I've got the southern plant down here in Dayton. No tours permitted.

  Robert Pollard

  Running, Writing, Rocks

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• Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.

  Daniel Levitin

  Brain, Body, Harmony

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• I'd never even sung in the shower, I'm too mortified. But once I got over the initial fear it was kind of enjoyable. Sondheim's melodies and lyrics are a real pleasure to tromp around in, it's really beautiful stuff.

  Johnny Depp

  Beautiful, Real, Stuff

  Interview with Orlando Parfitt, www.ign.com. January 23, 2008.

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• My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Beautiful, Healing, People

  "Alan Hovhaness Biographical Summary" by Marco Shirodkar, www.hovhaness.com.

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• I'm a dude who likes to create music with good feeling. I live like a chameleon through music. It all depends on what the beat tells me to do; that's why you're always gonna get passionate hooks, because I'm feeling the beats and the emotion behind the drums and melodies.

  Kid Cudi

  Feelings, Hook, Passionate

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• I am not a rock producer. I don't see that. I once turned down Guns N' Roses. I don't like shouting. I'm a melody guy. I love great melody.

  Steve Lillywhite

  Gun, Rocks, Rose

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

  Khalil Gibran

  Music, Oneness, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Traveling to Europe and traveling in the U.S.A. was a much different experience. 'On the Road' exemplified everything glamorous that was happening on this side of the planet. The book puts off some kind of sweet melody - part hope for the world, part nostalgic.

  Edward Ruscha

  Sweet, Book, Europe

  "Ed Ruscha on Kerouac, Social Media and Pop Culture in the 1960s". Interview with Tara Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Wherever inspiration comes from, it's like I'll hear a melody and chords, almost a rough structure of the whole thing [song]. I'll just hear it and chase what's in my head. The rest comes from jamming with band, improvising, seeing what comes up as well. I'll come up with it off the top of my head, catch it, sing and hum, and if something is missing, just jam, and that's the [songwriting] process.

  Chris Wyse

  Song, Inspiration, Missing

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• Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.

  John Legend

  Ideas, Piano, Musical

  Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com.

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• Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep And, Wordsworth, both are thine.

  William Wordsworth

  Sleep, Two, Voice

  William Wordsworth (1954). “The prelude: with a selection from the shorter poems, the sonnets, The recluse, and The excursion, and three essays on the art of poetry”, Harcourt College Pub

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• When the uniqueness of a place sings to us like a melody, then we will know, at last, what it means to be home

  Paul Gruchow

  Home, Mean, Lasts

  Paul Gruchow (1988). “The Necessity of Empty Places”

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• Not everybody has to sing the melody.

  Pete Seeger

  Religion

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• Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.

  John Keats

  Eye, Ease, Dry

  'Shed no tear - O shed no tear' (written 1819)

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• A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

  I. L. Peretz

  Letters, Depends

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• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

  John Keats

  Song, Sweet, Kissing

  'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1820) st. 2

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• The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first and then I get really obsessed with arranging, adding, and subtracting parts. The last step of the process, for me, is finding words that fit into that structure and figuring out exactly what I want to talk about.

  Mikal Cronin

  Want, Lasts, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.

  Dave Grohl

  Inspirational, Song, Missing

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• I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep it fluid.

  Negash Ali

  Song, Trying, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.

  Sonny Rollins

  Mother, Islands, Tunes

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• In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.

  John Ruskin

  Writing, Thinking, Hymns

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• I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.

  Ryan Tedder

  Pops, Sucker

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• With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.

  Ryan Tedder

  Block, Voice, Iphone

  "OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder on Hitmaking, Writer's Block and the Song That Got Away (Q&A)" by Michele Amabile Angermiller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 06, 2013.

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• A great song for me is when I hear it and it's contagious. The lyrics and the melody, if grows on you once and you want to hear it over and over again.

  Easton Corbin

  Song, Want, Contagious

  Source: thefirst3songs.com

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• The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

  Emily Dickinson

  Beautiful, Silence, Silent

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2032, Delphi Classics

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