Unheard Melody Quotes

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.

I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America—it is too mighty for the ears of most.

When you got a sound that don't sound like nobody else and it's brand new, you've got to feed it to 'em. You've got to force it on 'em.

Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world. They were like seeds in the beak of a bird, waiting to fall to earth, or the notes of a song laid out on a sheet, yearning for an instrument to bring their music into being.