Tunes Quotes - Page 15

• [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.

  Leonard Cohen

  Beautiful, Thinking, Skills

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• If we had about 100 years, that sort of slow cultural conversion would be exactly the thing to do. But physics is calling the tune here. We've got to respond to a timetable that physics has set for us.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Would Be, Calling

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• No one's ever done one of my songs badly. People say to me, "God, so-and-so wrecked that song." Well, I'm unaware of it. Anybody doing one of my tunes has earned my gratitude, and I don't get that many covers where I have the luxury to choose.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Gratitude, Luxury

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's always a nice tune [on radio] - helps you get the dishes done . I like to get the news from time to time - not too often. I don't feel deprived.

  Leonard Cohen

  Nice, News, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.

  Neil Young

  Couple, Writing, California

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your permission. But, once the song is recorded, they can get what's called a 'compulsory license', and they can record the tune, but they have to pay you royalties.

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Writing, Pay

  Source: afka.net

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• Very few people do covers of my tunes.

  Frank Zappa

  People

  Source: afka.net

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• In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going (vocalizing) like the chords on "I Walk The Line." And I always wanted to write a love song using that theme, that tune.

  Johnny Cash

  Running, Song, Writing

  Source: wrvo.org

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• The best way to use the auto-tune is not to! And that's what I do: I do not use auto-tune!

  Young Thug

  Auto Tune, Use, Way

  Source: theurbandaily.com

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• This is where the guys who copy me are planted: I do not use auto-tune, I sing. That's my advice!

  Young Thug

  Auto Tune, Advice, Guy

  Source: theurbandaily.com

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• [John's Adams] description of [Benjamin] Franklin in a letter to [his wife] Abigail in 1775 is laudatory. Only when he experiences all the adulation paid to Franklin in Paris does he begin to change his tune.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Paris, Wife, Doe

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I set myself a rule before I actually write a tune to the lyrics, and the rule is that I've got to take the lyrics on to a level of understanding before I can actually write music to them. What I'm doing is interpretation. If I don't write the lyrics, therefore I must interpret them to the best of my ability. So my rule is that I must understand it, but I don't necessarily have to accept.

  James Dean Bradfield

  Writing, Understanding, Levels

  Source: www.thisisyesterday.com

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• I never write a tune before the lyrics. I get the lyrics and then I write around them. Some people write music and the lyrics come along and they say, 'Oh yeah, I've got something to fit that.' If that's the way people write songs, I feel like you might as well just go to the supermarket.

  James Dean Bradfield

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.thisisyesterday.com

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• Chanting Hare Krishna is a type of meditation that can be practiced even if the mind is in turbulence. You can even be doing it and other things at the same time. That's what's so nice. In my life there's been many times the mantra brought things around. It keeps me in tune with reality, and the more you sit in one place and chant, the more incense you offer to Krishna in the same room, the more you purify the vibration, the more you can achieve what you're trying to do, which is just trying to remember God, God, God, God, God, as often as possible.

  George Harrison

  Nice, Reality, Meditation

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• Part of Krishna consciousness is trying to tune in all the senses of all the people: to experience God through all the senses, not just by experiencing Him on Sunday, through your knees by kneeling on some hard wooden kneeler in the church.

  George Harrison

  Sunday, People, Church

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• How long it will take until we get to a Golden Age where everybody's perfectly in tune with God's will, I don't know; but because of Prabhupada, Krishna consciousness has certainly spread more in the last sixteen years than it has since the sixteenth century, since the time of Lord Caitanya. The mantra has spread more quickly and the movement's gotten bigger and bigger.

  George Harrison

  Years, Long, Age

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• I'm telling you, [ real people] are not mad at Al-Qaeda. They are not mad at ISIS. They are not mad at [Omar] Mateen. Mateen is a victim just like they are. They are a victim of this country. These angry, irrational Looney Tunes on social media - be it people who are commenting or originally posting - these people think they're victims of this country, too. They have been taught that!

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's up to us to make the accommodations for all sorts of different travel scenarios. It's amazing how many companies aren't really in tune to the needs of different travelers. There's just so many embarrassing situations that you go through when you travel. You have to have a sense of humor about it and take it in stride. My whole approach is to embrace spontaneity.

  Zach Anner

  Different, Needs, Sense Of Humor

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Consumers cannot think in abstractions. They cannot envision a new concept. They cannot predict their behavior. They can only compare against their current frame of reference. So you need to make the big leap for them. You need to provide them with a reason to buy, a reason to brag to their friends. Expect new-to-the-world ideas to fall on deaf ears. Consumers will, however, change their tune when they can see, touch, and explore.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Fall, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Know who you are and possess that confidence and just tune out the naysayers and the critics in a way where you feel like you possess a certain patience and perspective that many of us in the bubble lack.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Perspective, Naysayers, Way

  Iowa State University Interview, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. February 23, 2017.

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• I can sing these tunes the rest of my life, but when you get the four of us together, it's magical onstage. That's Motley Crüe.

  Vince Neil

  Together, Four, I Can

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• [Kyle Chandler] taught me how to listen very well and reacting. There's a lot of improv. And to be able to do that on the spot you really have to be in tune with what the other person is saying instead of just waiting for your cue line or waiting for a word for you to deliver your next line.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Waiting, Lines, Able

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If you had to call it "unison", it ain't unison. It ain't the same as somebody else. If you can hear that it's unison, and you have to name it something other than "unison", it ain't unison, you know what I mean? It's two guys playin', but one guy is playin' slightly out of tune, one is playin' slightly off meter.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Names, Two

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from South America. All those tunes - the guitar concerto on Sketches Of Spain. All those are Spanish melodies. Some of them we made up ourselves.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Guitar, America

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.

  George Thorogood

  Blake, Heard

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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