Melody Quotes - Page 33

• It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Play, Trying

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars.

  Lisi Harrison

  Life, Second Chance, Creating

  Lisi Harrison (2010). “Monster High”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Hurt, Blue, Play

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath her fiery passion, at the very core of her, she was as forceful and strong and as constant as the deepest ocean currents. Ilya seemed as calm as a windless sea, yet beneath the surface smoldered a volcano of such explosive magnitude, his power could easily sweep everything from his path. Together they completed each other, his melody and hers merging together into a single, perfect harmony.

  Christine Feehan

  Strong, Ocean, Passion

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• Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to pursue them. It was something Melody wanted for herself.

  Lisi Harrison

  Dream, Insanity, Insane

  Lisi Harrison (2010). “Monster High”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.

  Will Durant

  Song, Strong, Fall

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.

  Lisa McMann

  Tragedy, Sound

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• That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

  Paul Brunton

  Peace, Silence, Meditation

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn

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• He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.

  Thomas Mann

  Passion, Would Be, Taste

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• Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Voice, People

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.

  Bjork

  Together, Different, Way

  "Björk: what inspires me" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. May 03, 2012.

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• I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Beautiful, Song, Passion

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• I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.

  Bono

  Memories, Waking, Wake Up

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• It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

  Bono

  Morning, Wake Up, Noble

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• There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

  David Bowie

  Mean, Want, Way

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Creative, Process, Dishes

  "Sinéad O'Connor: 'I define success differently'". Interview with Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Writing, Thinking, Piano

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• I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

  Florence Welch

  Able, Kind, Instinct

  "Exclusive Interview: Florence At The NME Awards 2012". Interview with Zoe Griffin, blog.very.co.uk. March 1, 2012.

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• I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

  Stevie Wonder

  Song, Writing, Ideas

  "Stevie Wonder – Musician and Statesman". www.reallifestories.org.

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• A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Rap, Rap Song

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope, which is also true of Bad Religion. So it's more meant to draw some parallels between the two. And I think even my voice and my delivery can be thought of as a little bit folky.

  Greg Graffin

  Thinking, Two, Voice

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• The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Change, Acceptance

  "Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits".

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• The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Strong, Boys

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.30, Crown Archetype

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• I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

  Maya Angelou

  Forever, Scripture, Earth

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• What? You don't think he's cute?" "I didn't really notice." "How can you not notice when a guy is cute?" Melody stared at her in disbelief.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Cute, Thinking, Guy

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “Safe Haven”, p.9, Hachette UK

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