Quotes About Melody

Magical music never leaves the memory.

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

Music heals all forms of misery

sometimes music isn't just a bunch of sounds and lyrics, sometimes it's more than that: a time machine...

On the lute of my heart plays only one song of love: Because of this melody, from head to foot, I am in love. Truly, for ages I'll never be able To pay what I owe for one moment of love.

Suddenly you're scrounging for your next meal, but "say, do you want to make a deal?" There's fear in that line, in that melody, in that voice.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust — we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Always, there was music.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

I don't like to waste notes, not even one. I like to put the right note in the right place, and my influences have always been those kinds of players. Keith Richards comes to mind, and I really like Nils Lofgren's soloing, because he's so melodic. I love John Lennon's rhythm playing, and George Harrison was an incredible guitarist.

I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.

Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

It's about the music, not the color of the person playing the music.

Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.

There's only one thing, in the end, and that's singing truth in a pleasant way.

Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you.

I'm pretty into music. Anything with music I love... I'm really big on lyrical content plus a good beat.

Listen to the melody and the feel of the singer, and try to get inside the character of the guy who's singing to find an answer to that or an accompaniment that is in that same pocket, that's not showing off or playing above the song, or trying to put too much into it. Try to serve the song.