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Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

— Agnes Obel

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

— Akon

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

— Michel Legrand

I had been obsessed with insects and creepy-crawlies: I used to get up at five o'clock in the morning and go out into this field behind our garden and collect insects before everyone else got up, and suddenly, all I wanted to know about was music. It just seemed a very, very strange thing.

— George Michael

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

— Steven Pinker

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

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

— Aaron Copland

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

— Suzanne Farrell

As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.

— Eric Whitacre

✗Opposing Perspectives

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

— Carlos Santana

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

— Florence Welch