Melody Quotes

Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

Sometimes a melody sparks a memory.

I’m good at melody – I’ll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I’m not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.

I can barely hold a melodic tune but I’ll still sing love songs all about you.

Lies feel like nails on a chalk board scraping down the marror of my spine and truth feels like harmonious melodies gifted from the hands of the divine.

In the midst of these silent nights, the midnight breeze creeps in traveling between the naked trees swaying with elegancy suddenly the moon sings a mysterious melody.

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

Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I’m songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into soul, and so melody has always been the first. It’s so important.