melody, n.Definitions

A Melody 1s 2eart can never be put down on paper.

Melody is the essence of music.

Melody is a form of remembrance .... It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

Melody's principle, repeated endlessly, is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

A Melody is a thing which, if it's any good, should go in through the ear and out through the mouth.

Melody is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.