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In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.

Andy Gibb
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The song is ended / But the melody lingers on.

Irving Berlin
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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

Johannes Brahms
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But other than that, I go from the text and the rhythms of the words. The melody comes from that.

Douglas Levine
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There is a melody born of melody, That melts the world into a sea.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

Gian Carlo Menotti
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You're trying to get the lyrics and melody to coexist. And sometimes you're trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

Andrew Bird
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Sorrow has produced more melody than mirth.

C. Fitzhugh
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It has the passion, it has the respect, it has all of the things that you really want an anthem to have and it carries the melody.

Adam Kidron
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I get to sing the melody part.

Collin Lapp
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Honesty and courage. Also, neither of them can sing a lick. She'll be the first to admit she can't carry a melody line.

Sam Shepard
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[He often carries out melody lines and chords at the same time. Before a rendition of Franz Schubert's] Ave Maria, ... Tip-Toe Through the Tulips.

Jake Shimabukuro
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Grant wrote the melody and it wouldn't leave my head, so I grabbed it and started work on the lyrics. It worked really well, too.

Robert Forster
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I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

Toru Takemitsu
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We were trying to make sure the arrangement was good, because the song has a very dynamic and sweeping melody line.

Butch Vig
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They're fun. You see his great gift for humor and melody even at that age.

Leon Hyman
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Melody kept the ball down and had a lot of ground balls. ... I think the more she throws, the better she's going to get. She's getting better with every pitch.

Kelly Sears
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.

Aaron Copland
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She didn't care about the story behind these songs. I could show her the melody, and she could do something absolutely fresh and new. Something really strong happened with this formula.

Olivier Libaux
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There's more pressure on the melody when you don't have all the embellishments.

Norman Blake
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I got connected to this film by luck, ... I was telling my agent that I was dying to do something with a big melody.

Alex Wurman
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Not everybody has to sing the melody.

Pete Seeger
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It lets the music breathe a little better. Melody is so important to traditional Irish music. I want to let it breathe and not cover it up.

Tony Davoren
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The first movement begins in sustained calm with bird calls throughout. The cuckoo's call eventually evolves into a beautiful melody.

Gregory Pritchard
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That was very ambitious. That's a very well-known song and you changed the melody and did all sorts of unusual things in it, ... That was really kind of cool.

Sass Jordan
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