Quotes About Melody

Lata Mangeshkar is a living legend. She has enthralled millions of hearts all over the world with her music.

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

I don't like using fourths and fifths. Instead, I'll come up with a harmony line made up of major and minor thirds above the melody, then I'll drop it down an octave so that the melody is on top and the harmony line is major and minor sixths below it.

That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.

Music awakens time, awakens us to our finest enjoyment of time.

Songs of Innocence

Music, oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell! Why should Feeling ever speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well?

Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones.

Oh, my Luve is like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June. O, my Luve is like the melodie, That's sweetly played in tune.

When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.

like the only hummable tune in a difficult opera.

La meta de la nueva vida en Cristo es que los hijos de Dios exhiban la "melodía y armonía" de Dios en su conducta. ¿Qué melodía? La canción del Dios de justicia. ¿Qué armonía? La armonía entre la justicia de Dios y nuestra obediencia.

He sort of breathes music.

The words he writes to his music, they're poetry.

So was hir joly whistle wel ywet.

And smale foweles maken melodye,That slepen al the nyght with open yë,(So priketh hem nature in hit corages);Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages.

Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that's the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn't change the fabric of things. This universe was not made for the fallen, only the redeemed.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.

I want music to move me, and I don't think it can do that without at least a link to tonality. It's the tug between atonal and tonal which makes music poignant.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

A good theme - like the 'Pink Panther' or 'Baby Elephant Walk' - can work all the way through the picture, which is what I did with them. So, for me, a good melody is not just a pretty tune.

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.