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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.

Quotes by Yehudi Menuhin

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

Quotes by Wayne Coyne

I really love writing themes and melody.

Quotes by Trevor Rabin

I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.

Quotes by Tom Araya

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

Quotes by Steven Tyler

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.

Quotes by Stephan Jenkins

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

Quotes by Stephane Mallarme

My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.

Quotes by Sonny Rollins

One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.

Quotes by Shawn Colvin

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

Quotes by Shankar Mahadevan

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

Quotes by Sammy Hagar

A folk melody can exist uniquely but also still be somewhat familiar to you.

Quotes by Ruston Kelly

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

Quotes by Rokia Traore

There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.

Quotes by Rodney Crowell

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

Quotes by Robert Cray

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

Quotes by Pablo Casals

I always begin to compose the melody first.

Quotes by Nobuo Uematsu

I personally like melodies. And Mani Sharma garu is the Melody Brahma.

Quotes by Nani

I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.

Quotes by Mike Stoller

Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!

Quotes by Mika

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

Quotes by Michel Legrand

When I listen to songs, to this day, I listen to the chords and the groove and the melody.

Quotes by Michael McDonald

Composing a melody or a western song is easier than composing a commercial number.

Quotes by Mani Sharma

Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody.

Quotes by Ludwig Goransson

It was very challenging, trying to add an orchestra on top of these traditional African rhythms, because as soon as you add any kind of melody or chords over it, it stops feeling African.

Quotes by Ludwig Goransson

The one thing about songwriting that's been consistent is that I do it for the love of a good melody.

Quotes by Kim Shattuck

I really liked the Sex Pistols when they came out and I thought they had a lot of melody.

Quotes by Kim Shattuck

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.

Quotes by Ken Hensley

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Quotes by Ken Hill

I record into my phone as soon as I hear a track. Melody comes first for me, and then my gibberish usually forms into lyrics and a concept from there.

Quotes by Keiynan Lonsdale

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Quotes by Joshua Logan

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

Quotes by John Otto

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.

Quotes by John Mellencamp

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

Quotes by Johannes Brahms

I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

Quotes by Grace Potter

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

Quotes by Gordon Waller

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

Quotes by Gian Carlo Menotti

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

Quotes by Gerry Mulligan

I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.

Quotes by George Harrison

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

Quotes by Franz Liszt

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

Quotes by Florence Welch

I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.

Quotes by Drake

My guitar-playing always included bass lines, melody lines, and rhythm-guitar grooves.

Quotes by Donovan

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

Quotes by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

As far as the music goes, I like melody.

Quotes by Dickey Betts

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

Quotes by Dennis DeYoung

What I like about Kasabian is that it's melody driven.

Quotes by Craig David

I'm all about the melody.

Quotes by Craig David

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

Quotes by Colin Hay

There's been this argument about Coldplay stealing this melody from Joe Satriani, but, if you listen to it, it's mine! It's the 'Foreigner Suite,' it is!

Quotes by Cat Stevens

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

Quotes by Carter Burwell

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.

Quotes by Carly Simon

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

Quotes by Brad Paisley

For 'Dynamite,' Max and Luke went to dinner and left me with a melody, and then I put it together.

Quotes by Bonnie McKee

I really believe in melody.

Quotes by Aulis Sallinen

I usually write lyrics first, and then when I get home or close to any kind of instrument, I usually make a melody for those lyrics.

Quotes by Aurora

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

Quotes by Aubrie Sellers

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

The world likes trap and EDM unless it's a fire melody.

Quotes by Ari Lennox

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

Quotes by Alan Menken

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

Quotes by Al Yankovic

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

Quotes by Aaron Copland

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