Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Van Gogh

Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

Sting

I find that the rhythm of going on long walks will suggest melodies.

Seth Godin

I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.

Ian Mckellen

It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk.

Sophie Marceau

I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.

John Burnside

What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.

Ai Miyazato

I don't feel tired at all, and want to keep with the rhythm I have right now.

Shinji Mori

I did that a lot in Japan. By doing that, I can get some rhythm back and keep my balance.

Mick Taylor

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues

Jackson Pollock

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

Johnny Cash

Get rhythm when you get the blues.

Roberto Luongo

It was one of those games. Sometimes you get into a rhythm and you play pretty good.

Luciano Spalletti

It will be hard, but we will try to keep this rhythm going as long as possible.

Robert Cray

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.

Pete Seeger

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

Johannes Brahms

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.

Erich Bergen

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

Ariel Pink

I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

Billy Bob Thornton

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.

Norman Blake

There's more pressure on the melody when you don't have all the embellishments,

Drake Bell

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

Norah Jones

I really love things with melody.