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Quotes About Melody

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.
~ Ben Folds
Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.
~ Alan Price
Music is life, that's why our hearts have beats.
~ Unknown
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
~ Leo Tolstoy
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
~ Bob Marley
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up
~ Unknown
Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
~ Maria von Trapp
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
~ Quincy Jones
There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.
~ George Lillo
Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.
~ Yngwie Malmsteen
In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
~ Robert Schumann
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words
~ Bernard Meltzer
Life calls the tune, we dance.
~ John Galsworthy
Pino was seized by something much more compelling and primal, as if Anna were not human but a spirit, a melody, a perfect instrument of love.
~ Unknown
I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.
~ Dave Barry
Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?
~ C. S. Lewis
Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste.
~ Miles Davis
Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.
~ Quentin Tarantino
The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.
~ Glenn Gould
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.
~ Anonymous
Love is the harmony of two souls singing together.
~ Unknown
If your love had a song what would it be? Could you soul continuously thrive without its rhythm?
~ Monica Chrisandtras Hines
Life is noisy but we should never stop listening to the melody of heart beat of those we love.
~ Unknown
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
~ Ritu Ghatourey