Quotes About Melody

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.

I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic ideas, and then I'll go home and sit down and add the lyrics. Or sometimes I'll get a lyric idea that I love. Usually it's pretty combined. Usually I get some kind of a lyrical concept and a melody and work with that.

I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home.

I have a taste for ghazals and I like them.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

Music is the poetry of the air.

It was monks who first taught the art of reading in silence. During the Dark Ages. Augustine, perhaps, was first. And silence was a tongue Elena understood. Silence was her idiom for support and caring. Silence was permissive and contemplative and nonconfrontational and there was melody to it. It was both earth and ether.

Nothing connects to the moment like music.

hurdy-gurdy

The young lady laughed merrily--a melodious ripple of sound. I have heard women's laughter compared to the tinkle of silver bells, but to that musical tintinnabulation was now added something so deliciously human and girlish that the whole effect was nothing short of enchanting.

The C Major of this life.

O, my Luve is like a red, red rose,That's newly sprung in June.O, my Luve is like the melodie,That's sweetly played in tune.

My love is like the red red rose That's newly sprung in June O my love's like the melody That's newly played in tune

sweet screams, pretty screams, singing screams, scream your song, sing your screams. . . .

The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr, remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. It is the most contented sound in the world.

The little birds sang as if it were The one day of summer in all the year.

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics

If you sing a song, you never be sad.

Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language.

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.

AN ASS having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, The dew. The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.

The Ass And The Grasshopper   AN ASS having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, The dew. The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.