I have a 'Play the melody' philosophy. It means don't over-arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody -- and do it the simplest way possible.
Jackie Gleason
Related When I play the clarinet, I am 100 percent myself. It is as if it is part of my body. I can play wha... ANAT COHEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Nothing gets easy. It is just that you understand how it is and how it works. Nothing its difficult ... DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS I firmly believe that there was an ancient language, the language of the melodies that make us all b... JOZSEF SZOMBATFALVI After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and h... LEE KONITZ Failure is not the final fall. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I h... HERBIE MANN After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a n... STANLEY CLARKE As We Say Life Is A Mystery,Then Dont Chase It,Just Live It. KIM CHOWDHURY I Dont Believe that Anybody Feels the Way I Do about You now. OASIS When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the ... FRANCOISE HARDY Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to he... CALVIN COOLIDGE Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all. STEVEN TYLER Love is a stranger and dont Live here,, and it dont even Visit KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) Well, I tell you... the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody roun... LOUIS ARMSTRONG We'll play guys a certain way and we'll just try to make it easy as possible. BRANDON WATSON The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song. BEN FOLDS Who says 'Life never gives a second chance'. It's just that we dont make an effort. REKHA MENON Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul. AMIT RAY If you dont understand the MOTIVE, don't judge the means! STEPHEN MAGNUS dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i... ANON QUOTER life is to short dont mess it up VITA NEDERLOE I dont understand why Floyd spent all this time trying to make a fight with Winky. I am the undisput... ZAB JUDAH I don't have a lot of time to speak... but we will speak soon. DEYTH BANGER Humans don't have any type of interest... HAVING SO MUCH STUFF AROUND THEM AND SO LITTLE INTEREST IN... DEYTH BANGER Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all. JODI PICOULT The value of routine; trusting your swing. LORII MYERS The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would no... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Don't think it. Do it! ANTHONY T. HINCKS Dont keep sweeping your troubles under the rug for someday you'll trip over it. TAYLOR WAPAHA I dont need a luxury life, I wanna happy and healthy life RODZIDAH (ELIZABETH) Eat cheese and do a u-turn but if you dont like cheese dont eat cheese and do a u-turn KATIE BAVISTER There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with ... CARLOS SANTANA people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don... CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field ... PATTI SMITH The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language i... EMIR KUSTURICA The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy. ENYA You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer. I DONT KNOW And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do... WILL ROGERS I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to ... NICHOLAS SPARKS We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that. ADAM RICH Getting to play for the home folks, there on Lake Martin, with guys like Jeff Cook, man it dont get ... BRAD COTTER You dont have the right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation ... CHERYL STRAYED Instead of dwelling and being upset over something you dont have, appreciate and accept what you do ... BRANDON HOFER Everyone has a gift. It's up to you to decide what you do with it. ANTHONY T. HINCKS In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem ... GERALD R. FORD I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up wi... SAMMY HAGAR Looks like Yoga is getting a good run in the West. However, I dont think Kara Linga will make it.... MANJUNAN GNANARATNAM You dont have to live forever just live. NATALIE BABBITT Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; ne... ANONYMOUS How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason? MAUREEN O'HARA I dont have a girlfriend, I have a dog. BLINK 182 It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and ... DAVID GILMOUR If you don't think it. You'll never do it! ANTHONY T. HINCKS Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside SARAH DESSEN There's doubt in trying. Just do it or stop thinking. TOBA BETA Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it. DEYTH BANGER Dont know why am different from other people, but i surely know that i think of the long run, i dont... OLASOT It just happens sometimes I guess. Guys kinda tease me on the team that I make the hard play look pr... JASON DONALD We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want... IAN WILLIAMSON My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. Whe... YANNI Dont expect expected things by unexpectable persons,it will just hurt. SHUBHAM CHAVAN Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. UNKNOWN Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ANONYMOUS People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL Isn't it amazing that we’ll cause ourselves more pain by thinking about, and avoiding something we... JAMES A. MURPHY Do. Then talk. In that order. SOTERO M LOPEZ II i can only change, what i can do with my own hands. MOHAMMED ABDI MOHAMMED Saying tomorrow only risks your chances of waking up after today. YAHYA MOHAMUD Do anything, save to lie down and die! NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE And if it's not there - if that little melody is not in my head, or if I just don't really feel like... BOZ SCAGGS Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am. Therefore, I want t... MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI I just have work to do; I just do it. IAN MACKAYE I dont have a crush on anyone easily. ANUSHKA SHARMA dont let the old break you; let the love make you BERTRAND RUSSELL dont break hearts, just bones JERAMEE PLOOG Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal, and yet if a melody has not reached ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant... CHUCK JONES I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I a... A. R. RAHMAN The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish t... DANNY ELFMAN VIEW FROM A HILL I am not yet quite over it. I am lying down on top of it. Surv... JOHN TOTTENHAM Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..................... JIMI HENDRIX Be not be discourage by the rejections. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop because you are done wi... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Do not be discourage by people who reject your true purpose. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop be... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show. ELVIS PRESLEY Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an... CAMILLE SWEENEY Sometimes it's like: If something terrifies you, you should totally do it BECAUSE it terrifies you. ... JONATHAN SACCONE-JOLY Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something ... AGNES OBEL I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody. MAYA ANGELOU Life is not a battle to win but a melody to sing. AMIT RAY I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the poi... JEFF BECK When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms an... SAM SHEPARD Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and com... CAROLE KING I dont wanna be a terrorist. I just wanna Blow shit Up! ROZZU LOZ I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing. CORMAC MCCARTHY Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter... SIMONE ELKELES dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life. NATALIE BABBITT I get to sing the melody part. COLLIN LAPP
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