"Melody is the golden thread running through the maze of tones by which the ear is guided and the heart reached."

"Melody is a series of repeated rising and falling intervals, which are subdivided and given movement by rhythm; conta…"

"Composers should write tunes the chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle."

"The heart of a melody can never be put down on paper."

"The melody is generally what the piece is about."

"Harmony is music does not consist merely in the construction of concordant sounds, but in their mutual relations, the…"

"A tune is always the same tune, whether it is sung loudly or softly, by a child or a man; whether it is played on a f…"

"A melody is a vocal or instrumental imitation using the sounds of a scale invented by art or inspired by nature, as y…"

"The continuity and diegetic function of almost all vocal melody draw us along the linear thread of the song's syntagm…"

"You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!"