Quotes About Melody

Some professionals say codependency isn't a disease; they say it's a normal reaction to abnormal people.9

She marveled at the selections Moira and Gretchen had made. As if they were both professional wardrobe planners. Or perhaps just angels in disguise.

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever. Even though you grew up and found you could never quite bring back the magic feeling of this night, the melody would stay in your heart always - a song for all the years.

What I learned about music is that it can have nothing to do with words, instrumentation, image, message, or meaning. The meaning is the melody, the notes, the rhythm - music for the sake of its own beauty, with nothing more required to express itself.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

I like to have space between the notes. I like to use silence.

I'm born and raised Long Island. Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Ben Gibbard - melody-driven guys... They shaped me, molded my music.

I like records. My favorite is Simon and Garfunkel.

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.

I love to simplify the ragas and use them in my music as much as possible.

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

She spoke the language of the Scottish Highlands (which is like singing).

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Color is the melody of light.

As he once told her, "a long closely connected train of reasoning is like a beautiful strain of music.")

Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.

I feel Indian music is very layered and emotional.

As pop songs, the early stuff like Electricity' and Enola Gay' were such inspirations to Gwen and I, especially melodically. They inspired us to try and do our own John Hughes prom-scene movie moment kind of songs.

The harmonica is a great instrument.

I use my voice as an instrument.

Voice is the first instrument.

There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

There's something about rhythm and bass sections generally, how the bass and drums interact, that's basically the soul of any song.