Unheard Melodies Quotes

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone. When I'm alone I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums?

I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Under-sung vocals can be very sexy because of the intimacy, but they can be just as heartbreaking for the same reason.

Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.

There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

I'm someone that maybe people who don't know a lot about me actually know more of my songs than they think they do.

I admire how Tarantino finds music that's semifamiliar and not famous: undiscovered gems.

I have a lot of unknown songs.

Flaubert called himself a human pen; I would say that I am a human ear. When I walk down the street and catch words, phrases, and exclamations, I always think - how many novels disappear without a trace! Disappear into darkness.

A lot of great songs get looked over.

I haven't written my favorite song yet, and I hope I never do.

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.

I search for different tonalities in my taps. But my greatest pleasure is hearing a note I haven't heard before, hearing a chord that sparks something new.