Melody Quotes
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Poor captive bird! Who, from thy narrow cage, Pourest such music, that it might assuage The rugged hearts of those who prisoned thee, Were they not deaf to all sweet melody.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— l. 9. (Epipsychidion (1821))
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
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'.
I remember on one occasion, when she was asked to sing the English version of the touching melody 'The Red-Haired Man's Wife', shereplied,'Iwill sing it for you; but the English words and the air are like a quarrelling man and wife; the Irish melts into the tune, but the English doesn't.'
— 1830 Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, introduction.
Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blund'ring kind of melody; Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in; Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, And in one word, heroically mad.
john dryden— 1681Absalom and Achitophel, pt.2, l.412-17.
They must have hearts very dry and tough, from whom the melody of psalms doth not sometime draw that wherein a mind religiously affected delighteth.
Richard Hooker— 1594 Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.
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
My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.
alan hovhaness— Alan Hovhaness,
Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.
bradley joseph— Indie Journal Interview
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).
Made still a blund'ring kind of melody; Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in. Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, And in one word, heroically mad.
john dryden— Pt. II line 413.
A man bringing himself, melody and mathematics into perfect and enviable proportions. / only more so, much more so.
Peter Greenaway— "The Eisenstein Song"
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).
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."
Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations.
— Bono, Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania PENN Address (May 17, 2004)] RealPlayer video (Bono introduced at 1:50:30, speaks from 1:56:00 - 2:22:00).
There should be rhythm There should be melody , but there should be peace . There should be meter and prosody , there should be no confusion ,... But there should be the love of the Lord in the song .
— Purandara Dasa, the doyen of Karnatak music, "Romance of the Raga", p. 47
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".
Mournfully, oh, mournfully, The midnight wind doth sigh, Like some sweet plaintive melody Of ages long gone by.
— William Motherwell (1797 - 1835), "The Midnight Wind".
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry , plot and narrative and character in fiction , the elite arts wrote off the vast majority of their audience . They purposely excluded people who approach art in part for pleasure and edification in favour of social one-upmanship and an ever-narrowing, in-crowd elite.
— Steven Pinker, in Your Cake Before It’s Made Philosophical Reflections on Steven Pinker’s Biological View Of Human Nature
