As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
quote by Mose Allison
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Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
quote by Gustav Mahler
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Old Song
our love like old song in cold night
without flower and wine
only you and warmth
simple sound flows smooth and slow
you hold me and smile
we don't need to talk when the music played
just listen those melodic words
swing in our hearts
poem by Maria Sudibyo
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Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.
quote by Yngwie Malmsteen
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My music has always been strong in melodic content.
quote by Chuck Mangione
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But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.
quote by Jonny Greenwood
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Melodic songs that people can relate to has always been our thing.
quote by Andy Taylor
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I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.
quote by Michel Legrand
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I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
quote by Kurt Cobain
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I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.
quote by Stephen Dorff
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I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.
quote by Gerry Mulligan
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Up In Attic
I'm dragging with this melodic symphony...
Hit by timpanis,
And ooops!
When that's done I feel ecstatic!
Oh babe.
Oh babe.
Said...
I'm dragging with this melodic symphony...
Hit by timpanis,
And ooops!
When that's done I feel ecstatic!
Oh babe.
Oh babe.
I see you winking at me,
With your eyeballs going up and down.
I know you're thinking of me,
As a clown you can screw around.
But none of this you're gettin'.
To fit into your mittened fists.
None of this.
'Cuz it's...
Hit by timpanis,
And ooops...
When that's done I feel ecstatic!
Ooops,
Kettledrums on the run...
I know it's gonna 'be' ecstatic.
I'm gonna be ecstatic!
I'm gonna be ecstatic!
I'm gonna be ecstatic!
Me, I'm gonna be, ecstatic!
Gonna pack my bitchin' and leave that ssshhh...
Up in attic!
'Daddy,
Can you turn that music off.
It's too loud!
Why you dressed like that up in there,
everytime mommy goes?
Daddy?
Are you coming out of the closet,
with those clothes? '
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.
quote by Kristin Hersh
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The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
quote by Jan Garbarek
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For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
quote by David Antin
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I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
quote by Kevin Bacon
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I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.
quote by Charlie Parker
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The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a 'wholesome personality' are inevitably their own.
quote by Joel H. Hildebrand
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The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
Listen To The Fugue
Listen to the fugue.
Listen as it interlocks,
To bridge an interlude.
Composing postures...
With melodic compositions.
Adopted tensions drop.
There is a nonstopping,
Of a weaving of peace.
Relaxation is released...
And noticed.
By those unaware,
A programming that had them prepared...
For battle,
Has been harnessed and saddled.
And utilized to quench their thirst for conflict.
Listen to the fugue.
Listen as it interlocks,
To bridge an interlude.
Composing postures...
With melodic compositions.
Adopted tensions drop.
There is a nonstopping,
Of a weaving of peace.
Listen.
Listen as it interlocks,
To bridge an interlude.
Listen to the fugue.
Listen to the one...
The one who dares,
For more arrangements like these,
To come!
Listen to the fugue.
Listen as it interlocks,
To bridge an interlude.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.
quote by Trevor Rabin
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