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Quotes About Melody

If you don't like music, there is something wrong with your face
~ Christian Coma
Singing is just a feeling set to music.
~ Carrie Underwood
Music revives the recollections it would appease.
~ Madame de Stael
Music is a reservoir... of sounds.
~ Dexter Gordon
Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.
~ Morton Feldman
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice
~ Albert Schweitzer
music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
Music makes a quiet mind.
~ Patrick McGoohan
Music at its essence is what gives us memories.
~ Stevie Wonder
The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.
~ Stan Getz
Every language has its own music.
~ Sid Caesar
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, moody food Of us that trade in love.
~ William Shakespeare
The Music was like Electric Sugar
~ Tom Waits
The Universe is making music all the time.
~ Tom Waits
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
~ Alistair Cooke
Music is half the film.
~ Matthew Vaughn
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
~ Edward Witten
I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
~ Charles Lamb
But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.
~ Casey Kasem
So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.
~ Steve Vai
Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.
~ Jack Black
I would like to think of Badfinger's music as mood music. Something with a bit of feeling, whether it's hard or soft.
~ Peter Ham