Melody Quotes - Page 7

• I find that the rhythm of going on long walks will suggest melodies.

  Sting

  Long Walks, Rhythm, Long

  Sting (Musician) (1998). “Shape of My Heart”, Welcome Books

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• But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

  Krist Novoselic

  Song, Guitar, Years

  Interview with Charles R. Cross, www.novoselic.com. November 2002.

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• When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key element is lyrics. There are a number of songs in the film where the lyrics themselves are very much speaking to the essence of what Ted Geisel was setting out to do.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Song, Keys, Essence

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies.

  Nikki Sixx

  Player, Guitar, Lines

  Source: forbassplayersonly.com

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• There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I love writing songs with people, which is about really taking risks, throwing yourself over the falls and really seeing what you're made of and seeing how it sticks. Seeing how others react to it, and seeing also how it can become a melody and how it can really take off from your experience. It's a way of seeing life unfold on the page before me.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Fall, Writing

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• Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. So I write melodies-thirty, forty, fifty-then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. That happened one time with Jacques Demy for the duo of the twins [in Les demoiselles de Rochefort]: I went to his house in Noirmoutier to play 35 possible themes for him.

  Michel Legrand

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level

  Paul Taylor

  Levels, Producers, Demos

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• I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.

  John Legend

  Kids, Hook, Way

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• Akon is a very talented songwriter to work with. His melodies, they're just insane. It's funny, I think about him a lot when I'm doing my melodies because he's so simple, and he's just been great. He keeps me on my feet, very grounded, but he also puts me on a silver platter, which is always very nice. So it's been an incredible influence. It's like every time you work with somebody that's better that you are, you become greater.

  Lady Gaga

  Nice, Thinking, Simple

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• All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world.

  William Law

  Sweet, Light, Air

  William Law (1740). “An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being righteous over-much. An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospels”, p.117

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• People can get too heavy and it's just about being heavy, which means there isn't a whole lot of art in that; it's more mechanical. Just always keep in mind that melody is what makes something memorable and if you take that out of the equation then you may have something that's technically played very well, but you still can't lose sight of the song.

  Jason C. Miller

  Song, Art, Memorable

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

  Michel Legrand

  Writing, Two, Directors

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• When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.

  Mary Garden

  Blessed, Voice, Lord

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• The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Successful, Magic

  Source: www.today.com

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• My favorite moments are when the bass falls in the pocket with the drums, the guitar is on top just slicing it, and the melody is scraping across like a sidewinder shattering through the monitor. It's just, ahhh, I love it! That's the jones, the hit, the buzz right there. It gets me off.

  Nikki Sixx

  Fall, Guitar, Pockets

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• In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Music, School, America

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• My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love. When the gentle fingers of Music knock at the door of our feelings, they awaken memories that have long lain hidden in the depths of the Past. The sad strains of Music bring us mournful recollections; and her quiet strains bring us joyful memories. The sound of strings makes us weep at the departure of a dear one, or makes us smile at the peace God has bestowed upon us.

  Khalil Gibran

  Memories, Past, Doors

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• Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.

  Feist

  Song, Lying, Simple

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.

  Paul Weller

  Song, Rap, People

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• The night comes stealing o'er me,
  And clouds are on the sea;
  While the wavelets rustle before me
  With a mystical melody.

  Heinrich Heine

  Night, Clouds, Sea

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Heine's Book of songs”, p.119

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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.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Play, Sensual

  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 11 (1820)

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• I want to throw my voice more, I want to manipulate melody more... I want to be less deliberate and mechanical... I want less melody.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Voice, Want, Manipulate

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to dance to in the club and the repetitiveness, whereas in rock music there is literally, like, balls-to-the-wall singing and playing. I love it.

  Julianne Hough

  Wall, Rocks, Singing

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.

  Buck Owens

  Change, Song, People

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