Melody Quotes - Page 37

• I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tried my best to please. But there was something about me that made them knit their eyebrows and frown. No one ever offered a name for what was wrong with me. That's what made me afraid it was really bad. I only came to recognize its melody through this constant refrain: 'Is that a boy or a girl?'

  Leslie Feinberg

  Girl, Boys, Eyebrows

  Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on.

  Bantu Holomisa

  Song, Funeral, May

  "Quotes from Nelson Mandela's state funeral", www.foxnews.com. December 15, 2013.

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• I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

  Carlos Santana

  Long, Language, Speak

  "Carlos Santana: 'My daughter beat me at Guitar Hero'" by Peter Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2012.

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• Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies.

  Darren Rowse

  Nice, Guitar, Play

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• I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics, I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

  Rod Stewart

  Couple, Doe, Lines

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• So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

  Lionel Richie

  Careers, People, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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