I think dissonance in
I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn’t, ‘Oh, that’s a pretty melody I can whistle.’ You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things. Eugene Chadbourne
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I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn’t, ‘Oh, that’s a pretty melody I can whistle.’ You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things. Eugene Chadbourne
Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, ‘Oh, baby,’ if there’s a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool. Etta James
About 20 years ago, I had a dream in which somebody sang one of the most beautiful melodies I’d ever heard, and gave it to me, and warned me not to forget it. Of course, I did forget it by the time I had got out of bed. Now as precaution, my phone is overloaded … Read more
To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from this old concept and arrive at an image in which the spectator could feel the beauty of a fourth dimension, which lies much more between moments than within a moment. In music one … Read more
The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal… It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and … Read more
I love going to synagogue on Friday night and being swept in the melodies. Everyone seems more friendly and unburdened by the week and ready to be taken elsewhere. Erica Brown
Funny how a melody sounds like a memory. Eric Church
When you’re just singing a beautiful melody with a story that’s true to the heart, you don’t need a lot of embellishment. Emmylou Harris
I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it. Enya
The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn’t make it easy. Enya