Quotes of Melody - somelinesforyou

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

- Joshua Logan

“ I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ”

- Lord Byron

“ It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. ”

- Hilaire Belloc

“ Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. ”

- Pete Seeger

“ One man's wilderness is another man's theme park. ”

- Elayne Boosler

“ I've always liked P.F. Sloan's 'Eve Of Destruction.' It's the performance by the singer, Barry McGuire, and, um, I would say it's also the chord progression and melody. ”

- Frank Black

“ I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. ”

- Marguerite Young

“ I know only two tunes. One them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't. ”

- Ulysses S. Grant

“ The history of a people is found in its songs. ”

- George Jellinek

“ There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Without Elvis, none of us could have made it. ”

- Buddy Holly

“ Without music, life would be a mistake. The German imagines even God singing songs. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Believe it or not, it's my signature song, 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco,' because it's given me a license to sing all the great songs that I could sing. ”

- Tony Benn

“ What's the difference between the music of my generation and todays? Our songs were about Love and Romance, today's music is chiefly about sex; which I might add gets a little boring. ”

- David A. Vigilanti

“ A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. ”

- Stanley Kubrick

“ Music is about textures as well as melody. ”

- Ken Hill

“ Quite often when I write a song, I think back to a moment in my life. I use what has happened in my life as an inspiration to make music. ”

- Ken Hill

“ All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. ”

- Elwyn Brooks White

“ There is a melody born of melody, That melts the world into a sea. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I firmly believe that there was an ancient language, the language of the melodies that make us all be understood. The melody of ancient times must resound in our souls so that we may have a human life. The ancient melody, the so many times forgotten melody, the melody of love. ”

- Jテウzsef Szombatfalvi

“ To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music, Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. ”

- Henri Frederic Amiel

“ I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others. ”

- Jim Cole

“ Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ”

- Unknown

“ Not everybody has to sing the melody. ”

- Pete Seeger

“ We're all playing melody against each other. our aim is to get so far away from the original line that your playing something that's never been heard before. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance. ”

- Jill Jones

“ 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

“ Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. ”

- John Keats

“ Sorrow has produced more melody than mirth. ”

- C. Fitzhugh

“ Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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