#melody

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#doing #instrumental #looking #melody #power

A melody is not merely something you can hum. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#melody #merely #something #you

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#answers #asking #author #composer #expecting

I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#get #i #i write #like #melody

Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34. ↗

— Melody Beattie

#gratitude #melody-beattie #recovery #faith

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright. ↗

— Lee Hazlewood

#alright #good #guess #heard #i

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true. ↗

— Don Henley

#forget #get #head #melody #notes

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that. ↗

— Audie Murphy

#any #could #freedom #french #melody

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#derived #early #enjoyment #especially #form

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

— Hans Christian Andersen

#lyrics #melody #music #beauty