Best 111 quotes in «melody quotes» category

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.

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

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

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

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

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

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

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

Hope sings when all melodies are gone.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I look at melody as rhythm.

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.

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

Inside the silence is a melody.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

There come to one's soul heavenly thoughts as he joins in heavenly expressions coupled with heavenly melody.