Quotes about Melody

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.

Anon they move in perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood of flutes and soft recorders.

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray warbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.

The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr, remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. It is the most contented sound in the world.

It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.