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I'm definitely using different parts of myself, but I think when it comes down to words and melodies, I can't really force anything too much. — Lia Ices

I love you beyond paints, beyond melodies, beyond words. — Kiera Cass

I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb! — MC Lars

There's a gray area between Conservative and Orthodox people, for whom you don't screw around with the mezuzah, you don't mess with the holy melodies. — Rick Moranis

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God. — Quincy Jones

With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart. — Tom Wopat

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. — Freddie Mercury

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs. — Patrick Carney

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies. — Flume

I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid. — John Legend

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them. — Tom T. Hall

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies. — Jim Coleman

I don't really inject the rock 'n' roll thing, what I take from rock 'n' roll is probably the melodies and the musical behind it. — Cedric Gervais

Cobbles are enormously evocative, like the scent of forgotten objects and remembered melodies. — Justin Cartwright

Don't fear to sing alone. If your song is right and melodies are touching, listeners will appear. — Debasish Mridha

Success is living life with all of its songs and melodies, triumphs and tragedies. — Debasish Mridha

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way. — Brian Eno

What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds. — Dave Grohl

It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies. — Avicii

The nonviolent rhythms of the cross meet the melodies of this world with dissonance. I — Preston Sprinkle

A good picture book can almost be whistled ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling. — Margaret Wise Brown

My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all. — Zach Condon

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance. — Roscoe Mitchell

My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work. — Sinead O'Connor

John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that. — Andre Previn

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music. — Antonin Dvorak

Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce. — Mao Zedong

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them. — George Eliot

I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature. — Brett Dennen

Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. — Julianne Hough

Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I. — Pete Seeger

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult. — Kim Gordon

I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head. — Ryan Tedder

Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do. — Gian Carlo Menotti

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts. — Frank Iero

Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics. — Colin Meloy

There are melodies that speak as eloquently as words, that flow logically and inevitably from a single, pure emotion. — Rachel Hartman

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. — Gary Cherone

I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies. — Mike Stoller

Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony. — Lucy 'Aisy

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies. — Willie Nelson

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard. — Gwen Stefani

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse. — Tracy Chapman

May sun finches warble sweet melodies in his ear, — Rae Carson

I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun. — Bryan Greenberg

Reef lit a hemp-and-tobacco cigarette and reviewed his situation, while around him infectious melodies and rhythms went on refashioning the night. — Thomas Pynchon

It grew louder, siren crying from her the depth of very voice; Sweet melodies to
guide me to the underworld. — Chika Onyenezi

Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet. — William Wordsworth

I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song. — Hoodie Allen

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me. — Sharon Van Etten

I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing. — Paul Weller

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable. — W. H. Auden

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. — James Gates Percival

Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit. — Thom Yorke

Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings. — Michio Kaku

God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song. — Mitch Albom

Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies. — Darren Rowse

I find that the rhythm of going on long walks will suggest melodies. — Sting

Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories. — Bobby Womack

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new. — Rabindranath Tagore

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later. — Jennette McCurdy

Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music. — Kenny G

I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies. — John Densmore

I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies. — Lana Del Rey

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures. — Geddy Lee

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle. — Liberace

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional. — David Guetta

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy. — Henry Ward Beecher

Melodies are important. I always kind of pride myself on my melodies. — Lee DeWyze

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes. — Steven Tyler

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano. — Andrew Lloyd Webber

I've always been a writer who does simplistic, simple melodies. But I think it works. — Corin Tucker

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. — Tom Jenkinson

Hope sings when all melodies are gone. — John C. Maxwell

The simplest melodies are the hardest to play — Gary Goldschneider

(1) Singing can help us remember words, which means that we should use melodies that are effective, sing words that God wants us to remember, — John Piper

You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy. — Jacob Artist

I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible. — Zach Condon

I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that. — Rokia Traore

I would say that we like to disguise our heartbreaks with happier melodies. — Aino Jawo

Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the USA' kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out-of-control beautiful. — Rivers Cuomo

Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged. — Maya Angelou

I love melodies so it's usually where I start. — Sydney Sierota

I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff. — Eliza Doolittle

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies. — Bruno Mars

Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies. — John Keats

I think country has the biggest melodies ever. — Sean Kingston

Every time I would think about my purpose, the answers seemed to come in sounds. In melodies. In feelings. — David Archuleta

Down the violet wind slid syrinx melodies, wild as foxes, mad as love, strange as wakening. — Cecilia Dart-Thornton

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra. — Barbra Streisand

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. — Michel Legrand

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach. — Chino Moreno

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter — John Keats

I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head. — Bono

It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies. — Mary Abigail Dodge

Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies. — Glen Hirshberg

True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men. — Shusaku Endo

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together. — Paul Lansky

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies. — Andrea Bocelli

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. — Tom Waits