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Quotes About Melody

Music theory, then, very simply, could be defined as a search for how and why music sounds right or wrong. In other words, the purpose of music theory is to explain why something sounded the way it did and how that sound can be made again.
~ Unknown
A la manera de la armonía musical, las diferencias armonizadas producen complementariedades, completitudes, una especie de obra melodiosa.
~ Michel Onfray
I'll never be able to give you a sonnet. I may be a songwriter, but the iambic pentameter thing throws me off. So this is what I got: tattered angel comes to me/beguiles and shelters me/pretty sexy dark love/eternity will set us free." "That was perfect." "It's just a start. I'll write songs for you every day," he said. "You are my melody, Kambriel. Together we're the perfect harmony.
~ Unknown
Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
La esencia del mundo es musical.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
~ Miles Davis
The sky is like an invisible map of songs.
~ Unknown
Each word he said was boring, but collectively the melody of them lulled me. I tried to resist, but just the weight of him, in pounds and ounces, was a relief.
~ Miranda July
Each word he said was boring, but collectively the melody of them lulled me. I tried to resist, but just the weight of him, in pounds
~ Miranda July
Each word he said was boring, but collectively the melody of them lulled me. I tried to resist, but just the weight of him, in pounds and ounces, was a relief. Always being the heaviest person in the house had been exhausting. I sipped my tea and leaned back into the couch. When he left I would have to shift the weight back onto my own shoulders again, but that was a problem for later.
~ Miranda July
We imagine that all angels are automatically musicians at heart.
~ Unknown
You know when you get the whisper of a melody in your head, or the murmur of a song? And you have the gut feeling that if you could just hear the rest of it, just capture the music"—the need an ache as frustrating as it was piercing—"you'd have something fucking amazing?" Noah nodded. "Yeah well, that's what it feels like with Molly." The most compelling whisper of his life. "I'm not about to walk away from that.
~ Nalini Singh
to my room.   Sheriff John Moultrie blew through his teeth and pursed lips, making a sound more akin to a steaming teapot than a whistle. The tune was "On the Road to Alabam'," a melody he'd picked up from watching gangs of gandy dancers as a child; he'd forgotten the words, but the ditty remained part of his grain.
~ Nancy E. Turner
Meanwhile, Rick was supplying texture and melody, and Roger drive, discipline and musical forethought. As drummers are a law unto themselves, I fortunately have never had to justify my existence in quite the same way.
~ Nick Mason
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
~ Noel Coward
Strange how potent cheap music is.
~ Noel Coward
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
~ Oscar Hammerstein II
The careful muffled sound of fruit That plummets, broken from a tree, Amid the constant melody Of the deep silence of the wood…
~ Osip Mandelstam
Do I listen to God singing the melody and then sing in harmony with Him or do I sing my own melody and urge Him to harmonize with me?
~ Oswald Chambers
the names come back to me like a song: Lorch, D'Augny, Neuhoff—
~ Pam Jenoff
This world has need of song and sword.
~ Patricia Briggs
A poet is a musician who can't sing.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
She laughed so sweet and loud and long it sounded like a bell, a harp, a song.
~ Patrick Rothfuss