Melodic Harmony Quotes

I think that in a certain sense, we're concerned about the same issues. How do you accent the progressive, the prophetic, those things that are critical of all forms of injustice, all forms of bigotry, all forms of dehumanizing other people, and yet still allow for a certain kind of flow, linguistic flow, certain kinds of melodies and harmonies in the samplings that take place?

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

Chance the Rapper: if you listen to his narrative and the subject matter he covers in his music, you can see that he's strong, courageous and shows vulnerability. He asks some very poignant questions in his music and is still very melodic. The harmony and the melody of the music allows you to also come in closer.

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

One of the things I really like about West African guitar playing is the way it makes harmony linear. They're really spelling things out and turning chords into melodies instead of just letting them be these hanging blocks of color.

When I write a song, I hear the music and words at the same time - one suggests the form of the other.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

To me, my guitar has always been my orchestra.

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many melodies fly about, one must be careful not to tread on them.

You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.

I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

The guitar is the most beautiful of all instruments.

The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

There are two thing you need for a jolly good hymn.The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of the worshipper.The second-and perhaps even more important- is a good tune..with a simple popular melody.

The great folk hymns are a perfect marriage of text and tune. There are those that have nice messages and some with good music, but it is such a bonus when they are both wonderful.

Singing a melody is like a lot of easier and when you sing harmony you have to really kind of know music and listen to the music and be able to hear the notes or whatever.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.

I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries.

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.

Something we're really known for is our signature harmonies, our great melodies - stuff that just makes you feel something and moves you.