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Quotes About Melodies

When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears you feel happy too. Not sexy happy but apple pie happy.
~ Lights
The little Prelude in C Major that starts the set is one of Bach's most famous and beloved pieces (it was reportedly a favorite of his, too), yet what appears to be a simple rippling up and down on chords disguises a complex interweaving of melodies.
~ Jan Swafford
One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.
~ Andrew Lloyd Webber
Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There's nothing wrong with songs.
~ Russell Smith
Mi fa orrore la musica di sottofondo, innanzitutto perché non esiste cosa più volgare, e poi perché le melodie più belle possono entrare in testa con tale insistenza da trasformarsi in canzonette. Non esiste l'amore di sottofondo, la letteratura di sottofondo, il pensiero di sottofondo: esiste il rumore di fondo, che è una cosa orribile, un veleno.
~ Amelie Nothomb
My dad is Polish. My mom is Moroccan, and I grew up around all kinds of different languages, and I love playing with it, and I love picking up new melodies.
~ Inbar Lavi
I love nostalgic pop music. The '80s especially, to me, is the greatest era of songs. I just love the '80s so much.
~ Kim Petras
For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.
~ Kevin Parker
The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came from the fact that we had grown up before rock n' roll. We listened to all the great songwriters and big bands, songs with great lyrics and melodies. I think that really influenced everybody.
~ Frankie Valli
The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
~ Babyface
For me, my favorite Mariah Carey songs were never the singles, ever. My favorite Mariah song of all time is 'Sent From Up Above' from her first album, or 'Vanishing,' songs no one talks about.
~ Michelle Visage
I've always argued that all Tame Impala melodies are pure pop. It's just that 'Lonerism,' for example, is a completely rumbling, fuzzed out psychedelic rock album. But for me, it was just pop music produced the way that I like to produce it.
~ Kevin Parker
True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.
~ Sh?saku End?, Scandal
God is a sound frequency, and we can all tune in if we just listen. Some find The Rhythm through different melodies, but it's all music.
~ Jennifer Sodini
Crystalline, chromatic scales converging and diverging into endless series; and synthetic harmony of the formulae of Taylor and McLauren, wholesome, square, and massive like the "trousers of Pythagoras." Sad melodies dying away in waving movements. The beautiful texture of the spectrum of planets, dissected by Frauenhofer lines ... what magnificent, what perfect regularity! How pitiful the willful music of the ancients, not limited except by the scope of their wild imaginations!
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
In the long run, algorithms may learn how to compose entire tunes, playing on human emotions as if they were a piano keyboard. Using your biometric data, the algorithms could even produce personalized melodies, which you alone in the entire universe would appreciate.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
A seu tempo, os algoritmos podem aprender a compor músicas do início ao fim, usando as emoções humanas como se fossem teclas num piano. Com base nos nossos dados biométricos, os algoritmos até podem produzir melodias personalizadas de que só nós, no mundo inteiro, é que gostamos.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
On hearing the subtle unstruck sounds of Om, the mind goes to the state of perfect stillness and the bliss of infinity arises. The chakras and nadis create divine melodies like a heavenly flute.
~ Amit Ray
Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.
~ Andrew Bird
Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.
~ Daniel Levitin
I'm pretty good at delivering my songs, but I just want to perfect the craft by creating melodies.
~ Polo G
John Denver I listened to when I was in elementary school.
~ Eric Close
When you work on animation, the music has a great task: to create a sound and melodies and mood and atmosphere and energy dedicated to these extraordinary characters.
~ Alexandre Desplat
My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I'd play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.
~ Xavier Rudd