Quotes about Melody

an orchestra is unified not because all the instruments are the same, but because the different instruments are playing the same song. They are using their unique sounds to create beautiful harmonic textures.

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

What a transfiguration it is to love! And the little shrieks, the pursuits in the grass, the waists encircled by stealth, the jargon that is melody, the adoration that breaks through in the way a syllable is said, those cherries snatched form one pair of lips by another - It all catches fire and turns into celestial glories.

I really love that 'I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One' Yo La Tengo record a lot.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

He who sings prays twice.

Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. We do not wish for Friends to feed and clothe our bodies, -neighbors are kind enough for that, -but to do the like office to our spirits. For this few are rich enough, however well disposed they may be.

Is there any way to restore harmony to the world? It can be done only by someone coming in from eternity and stopping the note in its wild flight. But will it still be a false note? The harmony can be destroyed on one condition only. If that note is made the first note in a new melody, then it will become harmonious.

How come you can hear a chord, and then another chord, and then your heart breaks open?

Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.