Melody
A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.
A rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and characteristic in expression.
The air or tune of a musical piece.
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Melody Quotations
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
Albert Camus
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
Pablo Casals
Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
Steven Tyler
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
Jerry Garcia
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
Franz Liszt
Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.
Paul Simon
My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.
Paul Simon
There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.
Stephan Jenkins
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
James Nasmyth
Melody Translations
melody in Afrikaans is wysie, wys
melody in Dutch is wijs, wijsje, deun, deuntje, melodie
melody in French is melodie
melody in German is Melodie
melody in Italian is melodia
melody in Portuguese is melodia
melody in Swedish is melodi
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