Tunes Quotes

• I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

  Buddy Rich

  Thinking, Play, Mind

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• Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present.

  Eric Butterworth

  Faith, Flow, Divine

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• Being spiritual is a far more intelligent way to exist. It means being in tune with the intelligence of the Creator.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Mean

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• In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else

  George Santayana

  Concerts, Oneself, Hard

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• When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

  Pete Seeger

  Guitar, Play, Half

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• Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Heaven, Musician

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.262

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• For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Art, Flower

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  Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

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• Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

  Timothy Leary

  Cannabis, Turns, Turn-on

  Timothy Leary (2003). “Musings on Human Metamorphoses”, p.128, Ronin Publishing

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• The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mother, Mind, Taught

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• As this New Year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you.

  Billy Graham

  New Year, Years, Joy

  Billy Graham (2014). “Hope for Each Day Signature Edition: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We cannot expect to be in control of the circumstances in our lives when we cannot control our minds for five minutes. Meditation is the daily minimum requirement that will prevent us from breaking down and falling apart at the most inopportune moments. It is the art of listening. It is a practice which enables us to tune in and fine-tune the key areas of our lives: the mind and the spirit.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Art, Fall, Keys

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Nov 25, 2015

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• I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Yankees, Two, Civil War

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

  George Washington Carver

  Love, God, Nature

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• Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

  Wayne Dyer

  Cheating, Money, Abundance Of Love

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean Girls, Women, Age

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• I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Thank You, Orchestra, Length

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• And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the Thing in the Cellar. Call it the Blow Lunch Factor. Call it the Loony Tunes File. I think of it as my private dinosaur, huge, slimy, and mindless, stumbling around in the stinking swamp of my subconscious, never finding a tar pit big enough to hold it.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Dark, Blow

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• Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

  Jim Rohn

  Voice, Entrepreneur, Tuning

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 14, 2016

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• While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

  Mark Knopfler

  Song, Swings, Guitar

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• 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.

  Lee Ritenour

  Play, Piano, Bass

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• Turn on, tune up, rock out.

  Billy Gibbons

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Turns

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• I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

  Robert Wyatt

  Character, Thinking, Musician

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• I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Character, Kind, Sawyer

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• 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.

  Terri Windling

  Music, Native American, Kind

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