Tunes Quotes

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

You owe it to yourself to keep fit. No matter how busy or how involved you are, you should have some type of physical program to keep the body in tune.

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then.

Sensual is being in tune with your sensual self.

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

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

Even when we turn around, there are no footprints behind us... Nor the road we came along, nor the tune we hummed... When we die, No-one will know it's happened

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.

I like me some of Wayne stuff. I think he's the one exception as far as the auto-tune thing goes.

The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on.

My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.

Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.

This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.

Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.

If we were in tune and communing with God every moment, where would be the need to pray or ask for anything?

What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.

The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

A soul living in tune with its internal purpose is bound to create utter magic.

To execute a vision, good or bad, you've got to tune out the noise.

The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.

Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren't partyin'.

I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs. I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.

A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it.

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.

I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'

All Nature will commune with you when you are in tune with God. Realization of this truth will make you a master of your destiny.

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West.