There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.
There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.
No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.
Inside the silence is a melody.
I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.
A great song for me is when I hear it and it's contagious. The lyrics and the melody, if grows on you once and you want to hear it over and over again.
I really believe in melody.
The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
I'm always searching for a signature sound and melody that resonates with the film and audience and becomes integral to the film, game, or show.
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.
It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a line of melody written in a canon form & so designed by Nature to fold back into itself, creating harmonic chords of interaction consistent with biological function
I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted to make music that had really good melodies.
When the songs of your heart start singing, you should listen. . . for its harmony will bring you happiness and the melody is the voice of your true spirit.
Harmony is the third element of music, after melody and rhythm, and also the one which requires the most study to actually master. People can be very instinctive and extremely gifted melodically and rhythmically, and harmony can still be difficult.
I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.
I love melodies so it's usually where I start.
A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment.
We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.