#melody

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. ↗

— Albert Camus

#chord #ears #escape #eternally #even

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#ghost #head #into #itself #kept

I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics. ↗

— George Strait

#closer #first #first time #hear #i

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

#becoming #ending #endless #had #melody

I'm just an animal looking for a home Share the same space for a minute or two And you love me till my heart stops Love me till I'm dead ↗

— David Byrne

#talking-heads #this-must-be-the-place #home

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

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#form #inevitability #melody #must #our

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

— Audie Murphy

#any #could #freedom #french #melody

No one can force you to become a monster – you hurt someone and you create your own demons. ↗

— Melody Manful

#guardian-angels #love-story #melody-manful #paranormal #romance

I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming. ↗

— Tom Araya

#even #i #incorporate #into #like