Maurice Gibb Quotes

I really believe in melody.

My course is about really working on a sheet of music. You work out the chords, which note complements the other, and how they will make the feeling of tension, the feeling of resolution. It's all about harmonization. That's more of the theory of notation and everything rather than practical. I don't play any instrument.

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Music is organized sound.

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

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.

I like the sparkle of the vibraphone.

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.

I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

Melodies are far more interesting. They are there, in your face, in certain sections of the songs. People do complain about the melody thing, but we do hit patches of melody and beauty, as well as the other stuff.

Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.

The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.

A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about notes, I talk about tone, I talk about timbre, I talk about rhythms.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'