Quotes About Melody

I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.

Yes, when I come up with ideas on my own, it's almost always a melody, just as often an instrument or bassline as it is a vocal. But it is a single, linear, monophonic thing. Something you could hum or whistle.

It is well-known that whistling is a great pick-me-up and promotes a feeling of happiness.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

I just like music. If it's hookey and good, I dig it.

It is disappointing to find that music in Malayalam cinema is drifting away from its strong melody-base.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.

I prefer unplugged forms of music any day to tech sounds.

Just because something is very technical or heavy doesn't mean that it's not melodic.

I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.

With every record, with each band, I just try to make a song good. I'm not so much focusing on my technique. There are a million better drummers than me. I try to adapt to the songwriter; I try to adapt to the situation and retain my sort of melodic power. My goal is for the band to be good.

I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.

I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.

Rap, for me, I go at any tempo and any sound of beat and incorporate melody as well.

I prefer playing in songs where I have a tempo, groove and harmonic map to hang on to.

She heard melody and harmony and counterpoint; he heard something calling him from far, far away.

Rejoice in the LORD , O you righteous! For praise from the upright is beautiful. Praise the Lord . . . make melody to Him. . . . Sing to Him a new song.

humming a few bars of vintage Springsteen.

He was a very useful bird, because he gave Grace and Hope and me something weaker than ourselves to worry over; and he sang as though he appreciated it.

seventh of the Rituals of Radiant Living: the Ritual of Music.

soaked in music

Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.