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    What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing?

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    Whenever I heard that languid, beautiful melody, those days came back to me. It wasn’t what I’d characterize as a happy part of my life, living as I was, a balled-up mass of unfulfilled desires. I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials. I could feel each single note of music, each line I read, seep down deep inside me. My nerves were sharp as a blade, my eyes shining with a piercing light. And every time I heard that music, I recalled my eyes then, glaring back at me from a mirror.

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    When Magnus looked at Imasu, he saw Imasu had dropped his head into his hands. "Er," Magnus said. "Are you quite all right?" "I was simply overcome," Imasu said in a faint voice. Magnus preened slightly. "Ah. Well." "By how awful that was," Imasu said. Magnus blinked. "Pardon?" "I can't live a lie any longer!" Imasu burst out. "I have tried to be encouraging. Dignitaries of the town have been sent to me, asking me to plead with you to stop. My own sainted mother begged me, with tears in her eyes - " "It isn't as bad as all that - " "Yes, it is!" It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It is worse than you can possibly imagine! When you play, all of my mother's flowers lose the will to live and expire on the instant. The quinoa has no flavor now. The llamas are migrating because of your music, and llamas are not a migratory animal. The children now believe there is a sickly monster, half horse and half large mournful chicken, that lives in the lake and calls out to the world to grant it the sweet release of death. The townspeople believe that you and I are performing arcane magic rituals - " "Well, that one was rather a good guess," Magnus remarked. " - using the skull of an elephant, an improbably large mushroom, and one of your very peculiar hats!" "Or not," said Magnus. "Furthermore, my hats are extraordinary." "I will not argue with that." Imasu scrubbed a hand through his thick black hair, which curled and clung to his fingers like inky vines. "Look, I know that I was wrong. I saw a handsome man, thought that it would not hurt to talk a little about music and strike up a common interest, but I don't deserve this. You are going to get stoned in the town square, and if I have to listen to you play again, I will drown myself in the lake." "Oh," said Magnus, and he began to grin. "I wouldn't. I hear there is a dreadful monster living in that lake." Imasu seemed to still be brooding about Magnus's charango playing, a subject that Magnus had lost all interest in. "I believe the world will end with a noise like the noise you make!" "Interesting," said Magnus, and he threw his charango out the window. "Magnus!" "I believe that music and I have gone as far as we can go together," Magnus said. "A true artiste knows when to surrender." "I can't believe you did that!" Magnus waved a hand airily. "I know, it is heartbreaking, but sometimes one must shut one's ears to the pleas of the muse." "I just meant that those are expensive and I heard a crunch.

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    When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The power of music is therapy.

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    When we step in the name of love, we cannot rhyme if we don't have the same RHYTHM, and we cannot have the same rhythm if we are not listening to the same BEAT. It takes someone who understands the rhythm and melody of your "heartbeat" to dance to it.

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    You are the poem rising through me. You are the melody escaping my lips. Could this be you—another me?

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    Who are you? A noise or a melody? Or may be you are a silence! If you are a silence, then you will be discovered only by the silent one!

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    You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!

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    You can learn things from a heart so bleeding When love bargains with deceitful pleading Hours soar from dawn to dawn splitting your time Don’t hear melody from a soundless chime

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    A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.

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    When you listen to a song you only hear the harmony because of the emptiness between notes. If the song is too full of notes, it becomes nothing but noise. To hear the harmony you have to let the silences have their place in the song. It's like each note is a pearl upon a necklace and the silences are what strings them together. Maybe God knows that without His silences in our lives, we will never hear the melody of faith.

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    But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story

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    All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

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    Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.

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    A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

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    Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

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    Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

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    Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.

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    Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine. - James Carstairs

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    Hope sings when all melodies are gone.

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    I don't really inject the rock 'n' roll thing, what I take from rock 'n' roll is probably the melodies and the musical behind it.

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    I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.

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    I find that the rhythm of going on long walks will suggest melodies.

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

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    If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch onto, that's great.

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    I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

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    I look at melody as rhythm.

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    I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.

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    I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.

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    I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

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    I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them.

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    I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

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    It's funny how the littlest things can make you feel larger than life; the right lyric, the most heartfelt melody, the clearest message. Love.

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    It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

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    I've forgotten many things, but I'll never forget a melody.

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    I would just be vibing with whatever I liked the most. And then there were a couple songs that I started on my own. I would have a melody or an idea and I would take it to the studio to go through it.

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    I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.

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    Inside the silence is a melody.

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    I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

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    I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.

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    Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

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    Lately I haven't been able to write for the guitar - it'll usually start out with a melody on the bass, and I'll layer vocals. I just can't really physically hear the guitar anymore, so I'll just go into GarageBand and play around with the keys. I'll sit on a melody or some lyrics for a really long time and just play with it.

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    Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

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    Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.

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    My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all.

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    Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

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    Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.

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    No harmony. No melody. No rhythm. No bullshit.

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    Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.

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    Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

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