Melody Quotes
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You're the top You're the Louvr'Museum You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss.
Cole Porter— 1936 'You're theTop', from the show Anything Goes.
An iron hand has stilled the throatsThat throbbed with loud and rhythmic gleeAnd dammed the flood of silver notesThat drenched the world in melody.
joyce kilmer— "To a Blackbird and His Mate Who Died in the Spring"
I wrote a little song for you With a melody I'd borrowed put to words that didn't rhyme To repeat what you already knew; As the stones thrown at your window tapped in syncopation, You kept a distance out of fear you'd break, But what good's a single windchime, hanging quiet all alone?
aaron weiss— In a Market Dimly Lit.
And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high; And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die.
Heinrich Heine— Heinrich Heine, Early Poems, Evening Songs, No. 2.
Yoga is like music. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind and the harmony of the soul creates the symphony of life.
— BKS Iyengar, in “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freed]om”, p.xxi
A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day.
— 1919 'A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody'.
The song is ended But the melody lingers on.
— 1927 Song from Ziegfeld Follies.
Whether on Ida's shady brow, Or in the chambers of the East, The chambers of the sun that now From ancient melody have ceased.
william blake— 1783 Poetical Sketches,'To The Muses'.
Good melody is never out of fashion
robert bridges— A Practical Discourse on some Priciples of Hymn-singing Collected Essays no 22
Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?
robert bridges— Book I, lines 83-87.
His range is so Handelian that he can give the people a universal melody or march with as sure a hand as he can give the Philharmonic Society a symphonic adagio, such as has not been given since Beethoven died.
edward elgar— George Bernard Shaw, in Music and Letters, January 1920.
From the blood of MedusaPegasus sprang.His hoof of heavenLike melody rang.
Eleanor Farjeon— Pegasus, St. 1, p. 181
Solos I kind of [couldn't] care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care most about, but it's really the melody playing that is the cornerstone of what I'm working on.
joe satriani— As quoted in Guitar Magazine (August 1997)
Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits your ear... Keep the bass line moving so you don't stay in one spot: if you have an interesting bass line and you roll it against the melody, the chords are going to come out right.
paul simon— As quoted in "Paul Simon's Workshop at the Guitar Study Center" by Richard Albero and Fred Styles in Guitar Player (April 1975), p. 20
Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats, Like melody of spring-bird, notes; When the blue halcyon gently laves His plumage in the flashing waves.
benjamin, park, sr.— To a young girl
In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— "The Ovidian Elegiac Metre" (translated from Schiller) (1799).
Oh, could you view the melody Of every grace And music of her face, You'd drop a tear; Seeing more harmony In her bright eye Than now you hear.
Richard Lovelace— Orpheus to Beasts. Compare: "There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres", Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Part ii, Section ix; "The mind, the music breathing from her face", Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos, canto i, stanza 6.
Max Müller is a Vedantist of Vedantists. He has, indeed, caught the real soul of the melody of the Vedanta, in the midst of all its settings of harmonies and discords the one light that lightens the sects and creeds of the world, the Vedanta, the one principle of which all religions are only applications.
max müller— Swami Vivekananda, in "On Professor Max Müller" in the Brahmâvadin (6 June 1896)
I phoned Prince out of the blue, hummed a melody, and he listened," ... "I hung up, and he came over within the hour. He listened again, and I said, 'Do you hate it?' He said, 'No,' and walked over to the synthesizers that were set up, was absolutely brilliant for about twenty five minutes, and then left. He was so uncanny, so wild, he spoiled me for every band I've ever had because nobody can exactly re-create not even with two piano players-what Prince did all by his little self.
stevie nicks— (on "Stand Back") Musician, issue 123-128 (1989), p. 84.
A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.
isaac leib peretz— A Gilgul fun a Nign, 1901. Alle Verk, vi. 33.
If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he where I, He might not sing so wildly well A mortal melody, While a bolder note than this might swell From my lyre within the sky.
edgar allan poe— "Israfel", st. 8 (1831).
Lend me your song, ye Nightingales! O, pour The mazy-running soul of melody Into my varied verse.
james thomson— James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 574.
The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.
Heinrich Heine— Book of Songs, New Spring, No. 9.
One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Woodman and the Nightingale.
The dance style is sensitive to the world, the musical note and the rhythmic beat. It treats the body in halves, with the lower part interpreting rhythms while the upper part moves around the arc and diagonal chords, to the melody. It has an abhinaya , or expressional tradition, that uses the body the face the micro-features and hand gestures in addition to costume to interpret the song, poem or the emotion.
— By Arshiya Sethi in "sattriya : the redefining of a tradition."
What fairy-like music steals over the sea, entrancing our senses with charmed melody?
Wilson— Mrs. M. C. Wilson, What Fairy-like Music.
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart, filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich in "Song of Years".
And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, My song may trumpet down the gray Perhaps Let me be as a tune-swept fiddlestring That feels the Master melody and snaps.
— John G. Neihardt, Let me live out my Years.
