Top Melody Quotes
For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.
Herbie Mann
The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.
Utada Hikaru
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
Pablo Casals
Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.
Steven Bochco
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
Igor Stravinsky
Sammy Hagar 
Scott Patterson 
Michael W. Smith 
Paul Simon 
Joshua Logan 
Colin Greenwood 
Dennis Brown 
Tony Iommi 
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A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.
John Mellencamp 
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One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.
Shawn Colvin
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Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.
Carly Simon
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Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
Yehudi Menuhin
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So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
Terry Riley
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Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
Joshua Logan
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I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
Toru Takemitsu
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I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.
Robert Cray
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Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
Tony Snow
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Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
Gian Carlo Menotti
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Popular Melody Authors
Albert CamusArthur SchopenhauerPaul SimonBrian EnoCarter BurwellCarly Simon EnyaAlanis MorissetteColin GreenwoodJohn MellencampKathy AckerSammy HagarMerle HaggardMichael W. SmithMichael Bolton
Utada HikaruTaryn ManningBritney SpearsSteven TylerDanny ElfmanJerry GarciaBranford MarsalisGerry MulliganIgor StravinskyGlenn DanzigFranz LisztBrad PaisleyTony SnowDon HenleyStephan Jenkins
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