Tunes Quotes

I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

I dont really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Looney Tunes and old classic cartoons.

You're not getting the b-level tunes. Our most recent producer, Danger Mouse, was quite sure about that. So you're getting the best of the best, the cream of the cream of what we have to offer.

I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

A woman who rides a motorcycle is in tune with the universe, a candidate for high adventure.

I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

You can get the highest quality sleep by keeping your sleep cycles in tune with the rhythms of the universe (known as circadian rhythms).

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.

The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.

If you don't have an album or you don't have any tune, you can't start.

I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to the cosmos.

When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.

I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.

The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.

Feel exhilarated by this whole process. You want to be high, happy, in tune.

Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.

That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...

Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that's something that shouldn't be dissected

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.

Tune in, turn on, and drop out.

My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.

I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.

My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one.

I just take a tune and play it the only way I can. That's it. I don't really dwell on it very much. Some people probably do. I can only say I play it the way I feel it.

Halloween festivities included an epic scavenger hunt & lots of Looney Tunes.