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• Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Taken, Fate

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.269, ShandonPress

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• Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blessed, Thinking, Feet

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.16

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• Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to sharp lightning. As some of them are susceptible only of melody, so some hearts can sing but one song of love, while others will fun in a full choral harmony.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Song, Fun

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.113

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• Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Girl, Boys

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• Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Song, Peace

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.100

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• Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats, Like melody of spring-bird, notes; When the blue halcyon gently laves His plumage in the flashing waves.

  Benjamin

  Dream, Spring, Sunset

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• My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.

  Corey Taylor

  Energy, Ears, Influence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our children may be in keys we've never tried. The melody of each generation emerges from all that's gone before. Each one of us contributes in some unique way to the composition of life.

  Fred Rogers

  Song, Children, Father

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.45, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Oh all the times I've listened, and all the times I've heard All the melodies I'm missing, and all the magic words, And all those potent voices, and the choices we had then, How I'd love to find we had that kind of choice again.

  Harry Chapin

  Voice, Choices, Missing

  Song: Remember When The Music, Album: Sequel, 1981

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• To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

  Isak Dinesen

  Patterns, Fantasy, Infinite

  Interview with Bent Mohn, The New York Times Book Review, November 3, 1957.

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• Love is the key-note of the universe-- The theme, the melody.

  Henry Abbey

  Love, Keys, Notes

  Henry Abbey (1879). “Poems”

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• Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle.

  Le Corbusier

  Heart, Usa, Two

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• Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

  Aaron Copland

  Pieces

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• Song like a rose should be;
  Each rhyme a petal sweet;
  For fragrance, melody,
  That when her lips repeat
  The words, her heart may know
  What secret makes them so.
  Love, only Love.

  Frank Dempster Sherman

  Music, Song, Sweet

  Frank Dempster Sherman (1917). “The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman”

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• I wrote 90 percent of the record in prison. A lot of people wonder, "How the hell did you do that?" I just pretty much played drums on my legs with my hands and while I did that, I would hum the guitar parts and sing the melodies of the songs.

  Ronnie Radke

  Song, Hands, Guitar

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• I love the melody of an unknown language, the strange food, all the surprises of a strange town, and my own impatience and curiosity ... I love traveling as others love the gaming table; I anticipate a new place as others anticipate the next number to come up.

  Elsa Triolet

  Travel, Numbers, Curiosity

  Elsa Triolet (1947). “A Fine of 200 Francs”

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• Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.

  Juanes

  Dream, Thinking, Roots

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• When I wrote a song, it would have to be from something I was really excited about, or a melody that's been haunting me for weeks, or a message I wanted to convey lyrically. So it would have to start from something I felt very strongly about.

  Brendon Urie

  Song, Haunting, Messages

  "A chat with Brendon Urie, Brendon Urie interview, Panic! at the Disco, Vices and Virtues". Interview with David Medsker, www.bullz-eye.com. April 19, 2011.

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• Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish. But sometimes I use some words in English. I don't know why. Maybe because I listen to a lot of music in English.

  Juanes

  Writing, Guitar, Use

  "Juanes Changes Course On English-Language Songs". "Tell Me More" with Viviana Hurtado, www.npr.org. August 23, 2012.

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• Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just start pulling out little fragments of songs from my head. A lot of times a melody will just occur to me and be my companion for a couple of months.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Couple, Airports

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• I really like the reggae concepts like the culture vibe. They speak on everything that's going on, they don't have limits. They speak on politics, they speak on life, they speak on the troubles of poverty, everything. The message, the melodies and the concepts of reggae music are unbelievable.

  Sean Kingston

  Culture, Limits, Poverty

  "Sean Kingston on writing for Rihanna, the Kanye-Taylor Swift incident, and more: A Music Mix Q&A". Interview with Joseph Brannigan Lynch, www.ew.com. September 24, 2009.

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• When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.

  Clint Eastwood

  Brain, Down And, Sitting Down

  "Clint Eastwood As a Changeling". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2008.

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• The source of each accordant strain
  Lies deeper than the Poet's brain.
  First from the people's heart must spring
  The passions which he learns to sing;
  They are the wind, the harp is he,
  To voice their fitful melody,--
  The language of their varying fate,
  Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,--
  The talisman which holds inwrought
  The touchstone of the listener's thought;
  That penetrates each vain disguise,
  And brings his secret to his eyes.

  Bayard Taylor

  Lying, Hate, Spring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.111

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• If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.

  Robert Schumann

  Piano, Mind, Desire

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.28

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