Melody Quotes

The tune that ties a song together.

These melody quotes look at how songwriters often begin with a tune before anything else, and how melody brings continuity to otherwise scattered musical ideas. Related reading lives in our Like quotes.

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

Quotes by Aaron Copland

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

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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

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