Melody Quotes - Page 31

• Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your soul, all functioning in such a harmony, in such wholeness, humming so beautifully... that they are in a melody, they are one. Your whole being - body, mind, soul - is involved in meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Mean, Meditation

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• All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are.

  Neil Diamond

  Song, Heritage, Matter

  "Neil Diamond Cuts Up". Interview with Richard Natale, articles.latimes.com. February 10, 2001.

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• ...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking going on, per se - it's more like riding a wave. and I know how to stand on the board

  Robben Ford

  Music, Real, Thinking

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• I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.

  Julian Lennon

  Lying, Feelings, Bed

  "Mindful Music: The Creation of ‘Everything Changes’ With Julian Lennon". Interview with Ronald Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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• The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

  James Gates Percival

  Air, Poetry, World

  James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1859). “The poetical works of James Gates Percival”, p.1

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• Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

  Gwen Stefani

  Letting Go, Ideas, People

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• There come to one's soul heavenly thoughts as he joins in heavenly expressions coupled with heavenly melody.

  David B. Haight

  Music, Expression, Soul

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• Music is given of God to further his purposes. Sweet melodies mellow the souls of men and help prepare them for the gospel. After men receive the truth, songs of praise to Deity help to sanctify and cleanse their souls.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Music, Song, Sweet

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• The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.

  George Benson

  Song, Play, People

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• every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Artist, Two, Symphony

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• Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?

  Robert Bridges

  Running, Lying, Night

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• By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry , plot and narrative and character in fiction , the elite arts wrote off the vast majority of their audience . They purposely excluded people who approach art in part for pleasure and edification in favour of social one-upmanship and an ever-narrowing, in-crowd elite.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Character, People

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• Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!

  Mika

  Disarming

  "Mika meets Dita Von Teese: 'I've had to work hard to stay like this'". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing

  Black Francis

  Song, Kings, Reading

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• Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.

  Billy Joel

  Needs, Easy, Stage

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• If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain.

  William Christopher Handy

  Dream, Song, Stories

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• Solos I kind of [couldn't] care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care most about, but it's really the melody playing that is the cornerstone of what I'm working on.

  Joe Satriani

  Thinking, People, Care

  Guitar Magazine, August 1997.

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• Sometimes melody and sometimes lyrics. It depends on the tempo and feel of the song. Slower pieces usually begin with melody and faster ones with lyrics. I write for the song and it leads me to my conclusion.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Song, Writing, Pieces

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• You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.

  Danny Elfman

  Feelings, Path, Kind

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• I am quite surprised and rather disappointed by the loneliness, isolation and indeed demonisation the sadly misunder­stood CO2 is experiencing. Thus, upon leaving the parliament, I am contemplating the foundation of an organisation called 'The Friends of Carbon Dioxide'. Membership will of course be open to all, including the plants whose very existence depends on CO2. I think this organisation's slogan, 'CO2 is not pollution', self-selects. It has both accuracy and melody to commend it.

  Nick Minchin

  Loneliness, Thinking, Self

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• I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

  Michel Legrand

  Duos, Strange

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• I could always hold a melody, but I was never like, I'm going to be a singer. So I'm able to use that when I write. I'm actually playing the beat with my voice. Instead of thinking about coming up with melodies, it's like filling in the instruments. So sometimes it's better to have beats with less melodies in them, because then I can play more with my vocals.

  Kid Ink

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom or the words that might inspire hope and courage in the face of fear. My weapons are peaceful, for it is only by peace that peace can be attained. The song of freedom must prevail.

  Paul Robeson

  Song, Voice, Inspire

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

  Gary Cherone

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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• Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Mirrors, Musical

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