Quotes About Melody

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

Low tide, free day, nothing being memorialized here today—memories float, yes, over the place but not memories any of us now among the living possess—open your hands—...to take up whatever it is the spirit must take up, & what is the melody of that, the sustained one note of obligatory hope, taken in...

Let echo, too, perform her part / Prolonging every note with art / And in a low expiring strain / Play all the concert o'er again.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.

Er weckt in mir die Sehnsucht, und obwohl er sich nach Feldern seht und ich nach Straßen, steckt er mich an. Es ist so wie mit den Liedern der Heimat: wenn einer sein Volkslied anstimmt, singt der andere sein eigenes, und die verschiedenen Melodien werden ähnlich, und alle sind nur wie verschiedene Instrumente einer Kapelle.

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.

And all the while, accompanying my every step, The Photographer is sounding in my head, purling incessantly through my clamped-on Walkman; it's a good piece, Glass's homage to Muybridge, minimalism used to maximal effect: with its repeating rhythms, endlessly rechurning, the music resembles a wave that doesn't move, a standing wave; that's what you listen to, the change and unchange of the wave, not any emergent melody: listening not above, but within;

When I say dance music, it's anything that makes me want to dance. It could be Timbaland and Missy Elliott, but it could also be disco music and samba music: It's not relying on melody in the same way; it's more about rhythm.

I remember, when I heard Jeff Buckley's 'Grace,' on first listen I just thought it was such a great song.

There's something about pop songs that are remembered throughout time.

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn one melody for a three-minute thing, and nothing ever repeats. I like that.

You could identify with Panchamda's music. It made you fall in love. It made your heart beat. It made you feel you are young.

Music makes illness retreat.

I can't even imagine life without music!

Music in this film is a very important part.

When you hear a romantic song, the feeling is incomparable.

As far as Indian artists are concerned, I really like Mohammad Rafi and Sonu Nigam.

The thing people don't get about Indian films is that the songs are the story.

It's the lyrics that makes a song a hit, although the tune, of course, is what makes it last.

Walk through life always with a song

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.