Quotes About Melody

I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.

Music was a big part of my upbringing. My mum and my grandma are very passionate about music.

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

People just want to have a bit of fun, something uplifting, funny, that's got a melody to it. That's what we try to do.

I love the sound and temperament of an upright piano.

There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.

Though 'KK' is an urban film and has more scope for fast-paced numbers, I've made sure that there's a bit of melody in all the songs.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

A lot like Dave Matthews or John Mayer, I kind of stick with the acoustic genre.

It was very challenging, trying to add an orchestra on top of these traditional African rhythms, because as soon as you add any kind of melody or chords over it, it stops feeling African.

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you're a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can't fit as much in. I'm just a big fan of storytelling.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.

When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

Music, and moonlight, and love and ro...mance." he sang softly to himself, tapping some computer

Dirt music, Fox tells Georgie, is "anything you can play on a verandah or porch, without electricity.

I love 'Ocean Avenue' by Yellowcard. That's always been one of my favorites.

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice. Her eyes caught the melody and echoed it in radiance, then closed for a moment, as though to hide their secret. When they opened, the mist of a dream had passed across them.

I could not walk except with you, ...I could not sing except when you sing.

and I smile and know why people write music and paint and dance, lifted as if they can fly, because this ache crashing inside needs to be free. sometimes, love becomes a melody others hum for years.