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Quotes About Melody

Colecciono palabras: son golosinas en la boca del sonido.
~ Sally Gardner
Él era quien llevaba la coz cantante.
~ Sally Gardner
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
~ Samuel Johnson
Musick is the thing of the world that I love most.
~ Samuel Pepys
In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column;In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I bid you sing … as (now again) longing floats around you, you beauty.
~ Sappho
The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for coin as he rasped a haunting melody. Life could not be more perfect.
~ Sara Sheridan
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.
~ Amy Grant
Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.
~ Ferruccio Busoni
I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.
~ Britney Spears
I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.
~ Satyajit Ray
Simple Plan's trademark is pretty easy. By the time the song ends, you can sing it. It doesn't take 20 listens. It's hard to write those songs but we try our best.
~ Chuck Comeau
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.
~ James Dyson
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Une gamme en do majeur couvrit la rumeur de la mer.
~ Marguerite Duras
It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.
~ Anthony Burgess
Bach's Wohltemperierte Klavier
~ Anthony Robbins
I decided that I would choose three powerful words, words of strong protection, and so long as these great words were never spoken aloud no change would come. I wrote the first word—melody—in the apricot jam on my toast with the handle of a spoon and then put the toast in my mouth and ate it very quickly. I was one-third safe.
~ Shirley Jackson
Music is love in search of a word.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Your lips are for songs about rivers in the morning and lakes at twilight.
~ Sinclair Lewis
If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.
~ Jodi Picoult
Mankind is a melody, every being around you is a note you have to mix in the right order in your life
~ Freedom Goodbird
How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?"—Zarost
~ Greg Hamerton, Second Sight
...music is the key to life
~ D.M.X.