Follow The Melody Quotes & Sayings

When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are sad, and the lyrics follow the mood of the melody. — Francoise Hardy

Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I follow it and lay it down. I can pare it, shape it, and polish it later ... My job is to take down the dribs and drabs - to free-associate, if you will, knowing that the associations have their own plans for where we're going with all this. — Julia Cameron

Morality is not a spectator sport. — Thomas Lickona

If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,' I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie. — Antonin Scalia

Start today to follow your heart.
Map out your own journey.
Have the adventure of a lifetime. — Melody Beattie

I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which way to go ... — Margarita Engle

Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart. — Melody Beattie

The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself. — Anne Sexton

Listen to the song of your heart, now follow the melody. — Debasish Mridha

London is always fun, obviously, but something about Glasgow really speaks to me. Usually what it says, though, is "Let's get wasted." — Keith Murray

Nothing real can be threatened; nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. — Doreen Virtue

Well, that's because they're wrong and I'm right. No more reading for you. Let's go get some ice cream."
"I don't know if the kitchen has any," Joel said. "It's hard to get in the summers, and - "
"Not from the kitchen, stupid," Melody said, rolling her eyes. "From the parlor out on Knight Street."
"Oh. I've ... never been there."
"What! That's a tragedy."
"Melody, everything is a tragedy to you."
"Not having ice cream," she proclaimed, "is the culmination of all disasters! That's it. No more discussion. We're going. Follow. — Brandon Sanderson

But nobody is born being able to hear [intervals], and many people never master them. Some people never even notice that "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and "The Alphabet Song" follow the same melody (and hence consist of the same sequence of intervals). — Gary F. Marcus

He had his eyes closed and
rocked himself so much that everyone thought he would
soon crash to the ground. And then it happened. He
crashed to the ground. Surprised, he lay on the ground
on his side, not sure what had happened, looking around.
Next he jumped up and listened to Matica's singing again,
starting to rock himself once more. His eyes closed slowly,
his beak opened. And then he crashed to the ground a second
time. This time he kept lying down, spreading his free
wing up into the air and waving it to the tune of the melody.
Strange sounds came out of his beak. It was a grunt
but more than a grunt, as if he was really enjoying himself,
as if he would follow Matica's words and would sing
or hum as well. — Gigi Sedlmayer