Quotes About Melody

There is nothing these hands can hold worth having. They cannot hold the moonlight, or the melody of a song, or even the beauty of a woman. They can touch her face, but not her beauty. Only the heart can hold such things.

But I struck one chord of musicLike the sound of a great Amen.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

Music is something that should give you peace.

Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.

Most people are oriented to words. When the public hears a melody, unless you put words to It, it takes longer to penetrate. It's always been like that, but I don't know why.

Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

Music is healing...(M)usic holds things together.

And the melody remains the ladder of elevation to the poem and the love that adores it.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

In Indian music, it is not possible to build anything other than the raga basis. We can run away from its fetters, but not from its main outline.

O bosque seria muito triste se só cantassem os pássaros que cantam melhor.

Creation, he says again and again, is full of music: it is music. At the heart of the Universe "white music is blossoming": love weaves the melody, whilst renunciation beats the time.

The great ocean, crooning its lullaby with one unceasing melody, lapped the island to sleep with a thousand soft touches of its wave's white hands. The

There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.

When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and it's really, really hard to write lyrics that actually obey the vowel sounds.

Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.