Top 1200 Melody And Harmony Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.
God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.
There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.
True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.
Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine.
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.
Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that’s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn’t change the fabric of things. This universe was not made for the fallen, only the redeemed.
Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country.
Once I discovered music and that you don't need to just use words but can add a growl to the melody, that releases so much more. I never want to make music for any other reason.
What? You don't think he's cute?" "I didn't really notice." "How can you not notice when a guy is cute?" Melody stared at her in disbelief.
My first experience with music was my father, he was a stereo buff and he built his own little Hi-Fi center with recorders and everything and I listened to a lot of jazz, which gave me a sensibility for melody.
The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans.
My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
Rhythm, melody, message, that's what matters. Our main concern coming out of the gate is to make sure those foundations are strong, the songs are speaking to us. Everything else, horns and strings, is sweetening.
Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
The song could start with a riff that I base the song around. Or a chord progression or a melody I have, I just write a story about it. Lyric-wise, it's cool to have someone else's input too.
Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart.
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
India has always wanted friendly ties with its neighbours, there can be no debate around it. We want to live in harmony and peace.
First, the human mind should be harmonized, then the harmony of Nature will spontaneously take place.
With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.
I'm glad I had a daughter first because with a boy you have to teach him stuff and it's just a little different. Having Melody has changed the way I see things. It's just a heavenly blessing.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.
Usually now a song starts just in my head with a melody or a lyric idea coming first.Then typically I'll go to a guitar, unless it's a instrumental then I'll usually build it on a keyboard instrument.
Every marriage is different, but the most important factor in a strong relationship is the love and harmony between the couple.
I think the nomads really give us inspiration about how we can live in harmony with our environment.
If you listen to the first, second, and third chorus of a song, they don't sound the same. It's the same melody and all that, but what really happens is that the energy changes. It's all about getting the listener to keep his or her concentration.
The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.
If you break down most rock songs and look at the lyrics on a piece of paper, it's all about melody. It's all about presentation. And a lot of bands are really great, but you can't understand a word of what they say.
I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them.
All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.
I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.
I'm not a one-stop music shop with jazz improv in aisle 3 and country and western in aisle 4. I have a fairly focused and established kind of melody and approach, so people know what they're getting into when they go into business with me.
My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.
And in their motions harmony divine
So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear
Listens delighted.
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment.
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
My whole career was launched in such sort of poptastic style with 'Kids In America', and I liked - and like - being poptastic. Songs big on melody, high on energy, lots of attitude... what's wrong with that?
A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.
I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.
A great song for me is when I hear it and it's contagious. The lyrics and the melody, if grows on you once and you want to hear it over and over again.
I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert or Chopin or Beethoven, though Beethoven had a very difficult time writing melody, too.
Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.
The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.
I like the type of music that can make my heart beat and the melody that makes me high but this type of music isn't popular in Korea.
Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.
The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.
I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.
It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.
I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.
