- After playing now for 60 years, it’s still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.~ Lee Konitz
- A melody is not merely something you can hum.~ Aaron Copland
- As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I’ll fit whatever I’m trying to say around a melody.~ Alanis Morissette
- Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.~ Johannes Brahms
- Doing the instrumental thing, you’re really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.~ Michael W. Smith
- Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.~ Stephane Mallarme
- 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 it would be Brazilian.~ Herbie Mann
- 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
- Give — and somewhere, from out of the clouds, or from the sacred depths of human hearts, a melody divine will reach your ears, and gladden all your days upon the earth.~ George F. Burba
- Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.~ Steven Tyler
- Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we’re a heavy rock band. We’re definitely not a metal band, but we’re a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.~ Adam Rich
- I always begin to compose the melody first.~ Nobuo Uematsu
- I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.~ Ken Hensley
- I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.~ Enya
- I don’t really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won’t forget it.~ Britney Spears
- I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.~ Robert Cray
- I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody… I am old fashioned.~ Toru Takemitsu
- I really believe in melody.~ Aulis Sallinen
- I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.~ Teena Marie
- Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.~ Hans Christian Andersen
- Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.~ Gian Carlo Menotti
- Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.~ Joshua Logan
- Music is the melody whose text is the world.~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.~ Burt Bacharach
- No vision and you perish; no ideal and you’re lost. Your heart must ever cherish some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, some rainbow in the sky, some melody to sing to, some service that is high.~ Harriet Du Autermont
- Sorrow has produced more melody than mirth.~ C. Fitzhugh
- The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.~ Pablo Casals
- The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn’t seem like there’s anything happening like that.~ Merle Haggard
- 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
- There’s usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.~ Stephan Jenkins
- The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance. - Love Quote
- The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn’t make it easy.~ Enya
- 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
