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 heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
Pablo Casals
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 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
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
Steven Tyler 
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau 
Paul Simon 
Ken Hensley 
Michel Legrand 
Branford Marsalis 
Nuno Bettencourt 
Michael W. Smith 
Merle Haggard 
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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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Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.
Michel Legrand
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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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The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.
Margaret Whiting
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From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
James Nasmyth
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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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