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• A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.

  Margaret Wise Brown

  Book, Storytelling, Behinds

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• Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

  Waylon Jennings

  Country, Guitar, Feelings

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• Sometimes the word dictated the melody.

  Andrew Bird

  Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

  George Clinton

  Real, Rap, Hip Hop

  "The extraterrestrial brother: George Clinton on time, space, and funk". Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. February 12, 2010.

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• When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.

  David Amram

  Listening, Four, Way

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

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• By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.

  Glenn Miller

  Successful, Color, Creating

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• I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb!

  MC Lars

  Artist, Men, Bombs

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• The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

  Richard Wagner

  Heart, Musician, Tone

  Richard Wagner (1873). “Beethoven”, p.16, Indianapolis : Benham Bros.

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• I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.

  D.A. Wallach

  Song, People, Justice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.

  Pablo Casals

  Art, Taken, Spirit

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• Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Beautiful, Song, Way

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• Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most.

  Andrew S. Gilbert

  Taken, Romance, Musician

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• I love going to synagogue on Friday night and being swept in the melodies. Everyone seems more friendly and unburdened by the week and ready to be taken elsewhere.

  Erica Brown

  Friday, Taken, Night

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

  Herb Alpert

  Tough, Great Lyric, Sells

  "Jazz musician Herb Alpert". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2013.

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• Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into soul, and so melody has always been the first. It's so important.

  Emeli Sande

  Piano, Soul, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember them. I think later on, I probably do.

  Lucinda Williams

  Dream, Song, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with a good melody - all you need is that one moment.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Needs, Complicated, Moments

  "Egyptian Protest Slogans". Interview with Ross Simonini, believermag.com. September 1, 2011.

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• If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sky, Might, Notes

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.79, Lulu.com

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• Music allows a person to express their deepest thoughts, thoughts that cannot be expressed with just words. I am often asked how I begin a song or develop a melody from nothing. That is the spiritual aspect of creating. Finding something deep within yourself that can only be created by you.

  Bradley Joseph

  Spiritual, Song, Creating

  "Interview with Bradley Joseph". The Spiritual Significance Of Music, World Edition (from extrememusic.org),

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• A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment.

  Rodney Yee

  Beautiful, Play, Body

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• I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling, and I have tried to interpret the same things with clear and simple words to those who used to listen to my music.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Simple, Feelings

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

  Patrick Carney

  Writing, Ears, I Can

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• It's the melody within the heart that helps us to endure.

  John McLeod

  Music, Heart, Helping

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• Usually now a song starts just in my head with a melody or a lyric idea coming first.Then typically I'll go to a guitar, unless it's a instrumental then I'll usually build it on a keyboard instrument.

  Eliot Lewis

  Song, Ideas, Guitar

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• I've always felt that the game itself is pretty much a melody and I am there to provide the lyrics. You want the lyrics to match the melody, because if you are composing a song or recording a song, it's cacophonous if they don't match.

  Al Michaels

  Song, Games, Want

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