(35 quotes found)
“Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal, and yet if a melody has not reached its end, it has not reached its goal. A parable.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous”
Yehudi Menuhin
“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.”
Sun Tzu
“A melody is not merely something you can hum”
Aaron Copland
“Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / of beechen green, and shadows numberless, / Singest of summer in full-throated ease.”
John Keats
“We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.”
Art Garfunkel
“A silent mouth is melodious.”
Irish Proverb
“It did feel a bit special all along. I think it?s got some of my best melodies in it. It?s the only one of my musicals which never changed from its first preview to its opening night.”
Andrew Lloyd Webber
“We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.”
Johannes Brahms
“By shallow rivers to whose falls / Melodious birds sing madrigals.”
Christopher Marlowe
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