Quotes About Melody

No song, no peace, no poetry, no end of days, and no forgetting.

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor along with

Love is a song that never ends.

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

All sounds have been as music to my listening

the most heroic symphony is a judicious combination of puffing, plucking, scraping, and beating.

Thought is a melody, Audrey thinks, while the body is an inert mechanism of cogs, springs, chains and ratchets...

Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast.

Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.

I was astounded at the passion and fire of the melody itself. I could not describe it then, nor can I now. Was it just his voice or something more tangible emerging from his very soul that could arouse such emotion in another person, and bring one's innermost thoughts to life?

It hits him again with the strength of a revelation. Rhythm rather than harmony is the organizing principle. Rhythm is what connects everything together. We all walk to a melody we hear inside our heads, he thinks. But that rhythm beats differently for each of us. Perhaps love, then, he considers, is where an absolute synchrony establishes itself between two people.

Silence is more musical than any song.

My life is like a singing bird.

Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but mankind is moved to devotion, virtue, joy, and sorrow.

Invisible magpies warbled in the plane trees. Softly, gently, never running out of melodic ideas, they perched among the leaves and spun out their endless tales.

Love is the key-note of the universe--the theme, the melody.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

you have the sweetest of all music in your soul just now.

Time, that dull mechanism that usually reliably stamped out one second after another, like parts on a conveyor belt, erupted into a glorious melody.

The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because it means that the melody is free to move between major and minor because you're not clashing with the third being depicted one way or the other.

I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing.

I believe that melody is such a lost part of music and country music. People are either scared of it or not using all the colors that are available.