Franz Liszt
Composer, Pianist
"In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance."
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Melody
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Freddie Mercury
Musician, Singer
"I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics."
Drake Bell
Actor
"With a good melody... music gets me through everything."
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape."
Drake
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap."
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"We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that."
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"The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health."
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"I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level"
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"John Coltrane, he talks to god. He starts playing his solo, he might play for 14 minutes. For 14 minutes, it seems like he's talking to god, but he always takes a hold of the melody."
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"Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it."
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"There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies."
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"There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody."
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"I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song."
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