Quotes About Melody

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.

Love is friendship set to music.

Together, we are the unchanging staff upon which all the other notes are strewn, sometimes in harmony, and else dissidence, but always in a beautiful key.

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance

Love is a friendship set to music.

bum-de-bum-de-bum-de-bum;

Ne restait plus que la mélodie asthmatique en ré mineur sifflée par ses tout petits poumons.

A warbler singing— somewhere beyond the willow, before the thicket

Flowers she hadn't appreciated before, but which now mesmerised her with the most exquisite purple she had ever seen. As though the flowers weren't just colours but part of a language, notes in a glorious floral melody, as powerful as Chopin, silently communicating the breathtaking majesty of life itself.

Music is about time,' I told her. 'It is about controlling time.

As though the flowers weren't just colors but part of a language, notes in a glorious floral melody

It's not the technique, it's the method. It's not the words, it's the melody.

as Nietzsche put it: "The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either.

Music is the soul of language.

Schubert is said to have told a friend that his own creative process consisted in "remembering a melody" that neither he nor anyone else had ever thought of before.

every melody and harmony felt part of some vast universe that belonged not just to man, but to every other creature—worldly and otherworldly.

For so delicious were the words she'd sung, it seem'd he had lov'd them a whole summer long.

Larry Clinton and his vocalist, Bea Wain,

Melody meant almost nothing. Aggression, rhythm, and texture were all. The key was noise.

sound as the parachute

there music's so good, even if you take as directed it