Tunes Quotes - Page 11

• A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into it.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Song, Spirituality, Deals

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• I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Some people find it easier to picture the stream of inspiration as being like radio waves of all sorts being broadcast at all times. With practice, we learn to hear the desired frequency on request. We tune in to the frequency we want.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspiration, Practice, Radio Waves

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.156, Penguin

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• 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.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Vulgar

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain”, p.83, Booklassic

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• We're trying to get as many people to become interested in seeing it, but if you like the theater and you're interested in seeing what live theater looks like in New York, you probably already set your DVR. It's gonna be a hard ask to get a bunch of college-basketball fans to tune in for three hours to watch the Tonys.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Basketball, New York, College

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• When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Over You, Lasts, Return

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• I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, well, neither do I. I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything- You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Mean, Magic

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• A little man is running a jewelry store. A man runs in saying, Okay, take my watch, put on a new band, install a new battery, clean the case, install a new crystal, and tune it up. I will be back in a half hour for it. Thanks! and runs out the door. The little jeweler says, C-C-C-Come in?

  Henny Youngman

  Running, Men, Doors

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• The truth is, the family is much more creatively nourishing because you're playing on a full keyboard. Whereas when you're single, you're just playing the upbeat jazzy tunes.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Keyboards, Truth Is, Upbeat

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hate how all the hip hop bands of today will put crazy sound effects into their songs. You know what I mean, like a police or ambulance siren in a tune? Because I could own the CD, I could listen to it 50 gamillion times in my car - I still fall for it every time.

  Doug Benson

  Song, Crazy, Hate

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• The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.

  Miles Davis

  Thinking, Play, Giving

  "Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis". Book by Paul Maher, ‎Michael K. Dorr, p. 18, 2009.

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• I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and I got to play a few tunes with him there. Shortly after that, I joined his band, which was the equivalent of joining the Beatles for me! He was, and still is, one of the greatest musicians I have ever been lucky enough to be around.

  Pat Metheny

  Play, Musician, Lucky

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• I don't know what any of my tunes are about, they're just out there. I'm not good with words. I just say the first thing that comes into my head

  Liam Gallagher

  Firsts, Knows

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• It's always fun to be able to have a voice, because it helps me to stay in tune with the project and the people that I am working with. Ther's nothing worse than being on a project and not being able to have a voice. I don't like that.

  Martin Lawrence

  Fun, Voice, People

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• People don't have to go to cable news or network news. Live sports is the one of many things that's kind of community television. There are a lot of people who still tune in to "Sunday Night Football" or "Thursday Night Football" the way they did before.

  Henry Blodget

  Sports, Football, Sunday

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• They're a handful, but Emily deals with that all the time and, as an actor, I deal with that all the time, so you just ignore it. When Julia [Jones] first came on set, she was like, "How do you deal with it?," and I told her, "You just tune it out after awhile." They were competing with each other, doing push-ups and just being ridiculous, so you just have to zone out.

  Tinsel Korey

  Actors, Firsts, Just Being

  Source: collider.com

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• Nobody can ever learn our military's secrets - unless, you know, they happen to have the Discovery Channel. Then, it's pretty easy, just tune in for a few minutes.

  Arj Barker

  Military, Discovery, Secret

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• Republicans are just rich, old, white people - that's all they are. You ever see the Republican National Convention? All white people - six black people: paid actors. James Earl Jones in his most difficult, challenging role! Tune in and attempt to watch him look pleased during a George Bush speech. And Clarence Thomas - as himself.

  Andy Kindler

  White, People, Challenges

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• 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.

  Zoot Sims

  Play, People, Way

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• On Saturdays I worked all day in Hunter Gaunt's drugstore in Winchester, and then at night, my mother drove me to Front Royal, where I sang pop tunes.

  Patsy Cline

  Mother, Night, Hunters

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

  Tommy Bolin

  Song, Writing, Purple

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• I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.

  Dinah Shore

  Country, Couple, Heart

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• I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

  Meredith Brooks

  Art, Dysfunction, Joy

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• 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.

  Leonard Sweet

  Church, Cosmos, Turns

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• My dad was a jazz fan and he used to have lots of old 78s, so I grew up with big jazz bands and the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie - although I really liked show tunes from those big musicals as well. I've always kept my ears open, as it were, when it comes to music. It doesn't matter to me what type of music it is. If I like it, I'll listen to it.

  Ric Sanders

  Dad, Ears, Matter

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