#mel

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#audio #available #avoid #because #being

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#lot #lyrics #melody #other #song

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#another #imagine #man #mile #smell

It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon. ↗

— Meat Loaf

#call #chameleon #go #i #like

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death. ↗

— Courtney Love

#consumed #daily #daily life #death #even

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. ↗

— Ernst Lubitsch

#finest #hollywood #leather #novels #order

Life is extremely complicated. ↗

— Robert Ludlum

#extremely #life

I mean, they're threatening - my career is over. You know, everything I've worked so hard. I've worked extremely hard since about 17 years old, you know, as a White House intern on up. ↗

— Andrea Mackris

#career #everything #extremely #hard #house

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#gift #invention #melodic #signs #surest

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#brazilian music #bubbles #had #i #just