218 Melody Quotes for You to Enjoy

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it. Nuno Bettencourt

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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper. Pablo Casals

Heart Down Paper Melody Never Put

If you can write a catchy melody and a song that captures people around the world, what better thing to do? Other than 'Let Her Go,' I haven't managed to do that. And that's fine by me. Passenger

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Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out. Paul Simon

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As a kid, on the cotton fields, I had this tune in my head. I hummed it and sang it. It was the same melody as 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' I could never, ever forget it. Percy Sledge

Man Woman Kid Melody Cotton Cotton Fields Could Never Had Head Forget Same Tune Loves Fields Sang Ever

You can communicate a sad message or perplexing message through happy chords or a happy melody, and I hope to have the listener pose more questions in their life as opposed to going along with the everyday and what's being pushed on them. Poppy

I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time. R. Kelly

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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't. Rain Phoenix

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We'd lie on the floor, turn the lights out, put two speakers on either side of our ears, and try to blow our minds with music. I know that I want to make a record that does that yet a record that, if it was played on the radio at twelve in the afternoon, the guy making the wall - the guy cleaning the motorway - he's got a melody to hang on. Richard Ashcroft

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We're basically a rock band - guitar, bass, drums and vocals. But we take it further than that. We can be rotten, dirty, and heavy as anyone, but at the same time, we've got a lot of melody. Rick Nielsen

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes. Robert Cray

Beatles Heroes Jimi Hendrix Melody Liked Because Still Much Hendrix

The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because it means that the melody is free to move between major and minor because you're not clashing with the third being depicted one way or the other. Robert Palmer

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody. Robert Pinsky

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It varies from song to song, but melody was always easy for me. Rodney Crowell

Me Song Melody Easy Varies Always

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists. Rokia Traore

Melody Without Exists Rhythm Right Hardly

I'm asking questions that most people are asking, but just putting a melody or a song to it. Sam Fender

People Song Melody Putting Most Questions Just Asking Asking Questions

When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come. Sam Shepard

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I can produce any instrument, any sound that I can imagine; it may be percussive to the audience, but in my mind it may be a piano, a melody, or a tuba, or a harp, or a harmonica. My mission is to allow people to hear the dance in its purity and up against any other type of sound or music. Savion Glover

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When I look at acts, I look at the worldwide potential. And what travels wide is melody. Scooter Braun

Worldwide Melody Potential Look Acts Travels Wide

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody. Scott Patterson

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Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody. Shankar Mahadevan

Music Words Melody Abstract Combination

There's something to writing a hook and something to writing a memorable melody. That's what I liked about musicals. Then I realized I could write my own songs, and I didn't have to sing other people's. Sharon Van Etten

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When I'm writing with John Leventhal, the music that he's written mostly comes first. And I'll write the lyrics and the melody. Shawn Colvin

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