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
Ken Hensley 
Lion Feuchtwanger 
Jerry Garcia 
Stephan Jenkins 
Conor Oberst 
Don Henley 
Sammy Hagar 
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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 
65% of people like this quote
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
63% of people like this quote
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
59% of people like this quote
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
59% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.
Lee Hazlewood
57% of people like this quote
One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.
Shawn Colvin
57% of people like this quote
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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