Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old melody quotes, melody sayings, and melody proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.Pablo Casals
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Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.Kris Kristofferson
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Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.Steven Tyler
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What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
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Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.Joshua Logan
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It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.Joseph Haydn
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Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.Akon
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Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.Ryan Tedder
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.Carlos Santana
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Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character. Aristotle
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Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.Gian Carlo Menotti
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A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.Rokia Traore
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The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.Brian Eno
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Melody is the essence of music.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Good melody is never out of fashion.Robert Bridges
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It's the melody within the heart that helps us to endure.John McLeod
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A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.Isaac Leib Peretz
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When the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance.Shah Asad Rizvi
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.Igor Stravinsky
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The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.Susan Orlean
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When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing.Yip Harburg
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A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.Ludovico Einaudi
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It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.Michael Bolton
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.John Keats
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The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.Friedrich Nietzsche
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You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.Danny Elfman
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Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. ... thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm. Plato
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The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.George Benson
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The melody of a religious feeling is the music of life itself. To those who do not hear it I could not explain what it sounds like ... If the spark isn't smoldering somewhere inside one, no efforts can ever bring it into existence. Water cannot catch fire.Svetlana Alliluyeva
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There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.George Jones