Tunes Quotes - Page 14

• The more attention we can devote to helping developing leaders tune in to their core values - drawing on their real experience and their true aspirations in life - the more likely it is they'll make smart choices about how and where to invest their talents.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Real, Smart, Drawing

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In this country, particularly, actually in times that are difficult, or from corners of America where you least expect it, unbelievable pure creativity has welled up. Generally because of the cross-fertilization... a Scott Joplin tune becomes jazz, becomes blues, and becomes rock 'n' roll.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Country, Creativity, Rocks

  "Baz Luhrmann examines early hip-hop in Netflix series". Interview with John Carucci, apnews.com. July 29, 2016.

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• You need to tune your instrument, which is your body and your mind, and your soul.

  Abby Brammell

  Soul, Mind, Needs

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.

  Van Morrison

  Two, Style, Trying

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.

  Van Morrison

  Mean, Rocks, Play

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.

  Van Morrison

  Mean, Play, Labels

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• Whenever I have a bunch of tunes written, I always find a kind of uniform that accompanies the songs.

  Jenny Lewis

  Song, Uniforms, Kind

  "Jenny Lewis made the move from child actor into music for the right reasons". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. August 30, 2016.

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• Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals.

  Howard Gardner

  Judging People, Way, Facts

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• I love to act, so the only way I could act was through community theatre and they would just do musicals. My musical upbringing was show-tunes and it sucks and I have been trying to get away from it ever since.

  Thomston

  Community Theatre, Musical, Trying

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• In a dog social cue from a master can override where he saw the being placed. That won’t happen unless we have bred a social in tune animal, that’s what a dog is. That’s why they got so much trouble with separation anxiety – you leave them home alone and they’re chewing up the house and stuff. A lot of dogs don’t handle being home alone very well.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Home, Animal

  Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune into some big feature like the glasses, maybe the beard, baseball hats, you know some unique feature like that. And they'll generalize like, "Okay! All people with baseball hats or black rimmed glasses are bad."

  Temple Grandin

  Baseball, Hate, Real

  Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I was aware of it but I think I was aware of it abstractly, theoretically. You know I understood who Edward Snowden was and what he did but I didn't really see the relevance that it bore in my life and doing film changed that tune pretty quick.

  Zachary Quinto

  Thinking, Film, Changed

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs. If you're a writer you have some inclination to pay attention. I didn't just tune it out and think about baseball. So, it had an effect on me.

  John Irving

  Baseball, Song, Thinking

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• We call for cancelling student debt, for bailing out young people like Wall Street was bailed out to the tune of $16 trillion.

  Jill Stein

  Wall, People, Debt

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I'm just really old [in Doctor Strange]. Just really, really old. There is I suppose a sort of theme tune which I'm really interested in.

  Tilda Swinton

  Doctors, Strange, Theme

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was really one of the - whose name is impossible to pronounce - who was really one of the architects of this very aggressive American interventionist foreign policy, you know, really stand up to Russia, challenge them, not only Russia but China. He's changed his tune now and is basically advocating for a much more diplomatic and collaborative approach to the other power centers of the world that are just kind of moving on without us right now.

  Jill Stein

  Moving, Names, Russia

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

  Ry Cooder

  Beautiful, Musician, Great Music

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For me, when I want to be emotionally moved by a vocal, I don't want to hear auto tune on it, I want to hear the beautiful imperfections.

  Eric Benet

  Beautiful, Auto Tune, Imperfection

  "Eric Benet Interview: New Album, Staying Authentic, Passion for R&B, Potential Project with Tamia". Youknowigotsoul.com Interview, youknowigotsoul.com. October 5, 2016.

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• 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.

  John Kao

  Skills, Example, Jazz

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Tunes have notes and tempos and rules. If the tune is "All the Things You Are," you have to adhere to its structure and to the tradition behind that structure.

  John Kao

  Tradition, Notes, Structure

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance.

  John Kao

  Risk, Musician, Jazz

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make "All Along the Watchtower" sound like a Disney tune, hosts an old-school radio show, and turns up in some unusual places, like ads for Chrysler and Victoria's Secret.

  Jay Michaelson

  School, Dark, Roots

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I love music and I always seem to have a tune in my head.

  Ewan McGregor

  Music Love, I Love Music, Seems

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• There are things I've kept over the years and then someday I might pull up a program of some tune that I've done and I go "Wow, I know what to do with this now".

  Terry Bozzio

  Years, Might, Pull Ups

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't think it was great, it's not out there.

  Terry Bozzio

  Thinking, Records, Jerk

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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