Quotes About Melodies

I listen to a lot of '80s stuff, like 'Owner of a Lonely Heart,' by the group Yes. And Mr. Mister's 'Broken Wings.'

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

There was always music in my house when I was a kid. On Saturday mornings, my mother would clean house to 45s blaring out the songs of Neil Diamond, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Cat Stevens, Harry Chapin.

Country songs are theatrical songs, they tell stories, and wear the hearts on their sleeves and they have great melodies.

Reflect on the 33rd Psalm: Let the godly sing for joy to the Lord; ?it is fitting for the pure to sing to Him. Praise the Lord with melodies on the lyre; ?make music for him on the ten-stringed harp. Sing a new song of praise to him; ?play skillfully on the harp, and sing with joy.

That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.

Success is living life with all of its songs and melodies, triumphs and tragedies.

But I see New York written all over it. Ennui. Futility. Dreary nights. Sad jokes. Creamy voices. Crooning melodies.

We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light.

Kako je odrastao i kako mu je glazba postajala sve važnijom, maj?in je glas po?eo doživljavati manje kao pjesmu, a više kao svojevrsnu simfoniju koja sadržava bezbrojne varijacije na poznate teme i melodije koje se mijenjaju u skladu s njezinim hirovima i raspoloženjima.

The presence in the living room called to her, summoning her in a hundred voices and none, a great dissonant harmony alien yet familiar, like a song that, once heard, insinuates itself into one's history, finding echoes in old melodies; a configuration once hidden, now revealed. Step

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

Every life has a soundtrack.

No one wants the picture-perfect song anymore. I'm trying to keep the beautiful qualities of pop - nostalgia, melodies, and the feeling that a beautiful pop song can give you - but make it real. It's not polished.

Often, with our music, there's quite a lot going on, so people hear melodies that sound up and catchy, and production, and maybe don't really listen to what the songs are about, so it's nice to sing a song like 'The Currents' and really mean it.

In my home, we listened to music all the time. I was raised through music, and I've been interested in it since I was three.

I was raised on pop music.

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.

Many times, the way I write my themes or melodies is that I hear it, and then I sing into my phone or something, or I'll scribble down on a piece of paper.

So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies and counter melodies all played very rhythmically.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

I listen to a wide array of music, all depends on the mood I'm in at the time.

Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.