Quotes About Melody

One must force the frozen circumstances to dance, by singing to them their own melody.

And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.

"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."
(from The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1)

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man.

Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feeling all right.

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

It is the special province of music to move the heart.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.

To sing is to pray twice.

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

The two things you can't fake are good food and good music