Quotes About Melody

Then he removed a pick from his back pocket and, using a thick hairpin for a torsion bar, jiggled the dead bolt open. He whistled "Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho" as he worked.

Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

The ree the ra the ree the ra the roo. Lord, I mustn't lilt here.

Beauty of music you must hear twice.

A folk melody can exist uniquely but also still be somewhat familiar to you.

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

Music brings unity.

I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it's not just American. A great song can touch the world.

Music is indeed the universal language and unites people.

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

Music is the universal language that everyone can understand.

Music don't have no color or no face. It's a universal language.

Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.

If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.

Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires.

Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar.

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

If melody is going out of our songs, if meaning of lyrics are getting trivialized, if golden voice is missing from our music and bad content creeps in, all of us should fight it together to stem the rot.

Melody, for Baroque composers, is prose, not poetry. It does not come in paired lines (like a folk song, or a Schubert Lied), but in rhetorical sentences or paragraphs.

He is by nature a musician who composes the harmony of the Cosmos and transmits to each individual the rhythm of their own music. If the music becomes discordant, don't blame the musician, but the lyre-string he plays, that has become loose and sounds flat, marring the perfect beauty of the melody.

In music, there is no country; there is no time.

As far as melodies go, I could probably write 100 songs in a day - with no words of course - just because I love melody.