Tunes Quotes - Page 16

• Bill Charlap and I recorded a tune that Jack [Montrose] wrote and had brought to a date with Bob that was untitled. Bob [Gordon] really loved it and asked if he would mind if they dedicated it to Sue and call it "For Sue."

  Jon Gordon

  Mind, Bob, Bills

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• The customer is always what inspires me first! I love talking to everyone on Instagram and seeing feedback on SnapChat! I can ask a question like "What product do you wanna see next??" and they give you immediate answers. I will never make a product I personally wouldn't wear every day! But I think it's important to be in tune with your audience and see their expectations.

  Jeffree Star

  Thinking, Talking, Giving

  Source: logicalharmony.net

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• Mr. Trump doesn't radiate many of the qualities I respect. But what do I know? I've never met Trump. I know he's savvy enough to change his tune according to his audience and I don't know very much at all about how government works.

  Pico Iyer

  Government, Quality, Enough

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The way I generally work is that I do try to leave as many decisions as I possibly can to the day of, because it feels like that's where you're most in tune to what's going on. I sort of feel like my job is to be a conduit to opportunities, to maximize the creativity of the day itself - because that's when the cameras are running. That's the important thing to me.

  David Mackenzie

  Running, Jobs, Creativity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

  James Agee

  Time, Preparation, Tradition

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• It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Death, Humor

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• There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.

  Mose Allison

  Humorous, Views, Point Of View

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• I think we're tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series after seeing the movie they might be disappointed. That there was, you know, that they might have some kind of adverse reaction.

  Gillian Anderson

  Thinking, Different, Might

  "HSX Dovlin's Domain". Interview with Rod Dovlin, www.gilliananderson.ws. August 29, 1997.

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• It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

  Hannah Arendt

  Country, Association, Tradition

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I feel like some of my baby fat is going away, and that’s not just physically, it’s psychologically. I think that your body is in tune with your mind and your spirituality and your heart. If things are going better, I just think you look better.

  Drew Barrymore

  Baby, Heart, Thinking

  "Drew Barrymore: Sometimes I Look Like Shamu". Harper’s Bazaar, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2010.

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• If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

  Count Basie

  Music, Play, Feet

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• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

  Samuel Beckett

  Teaching, Learning, Faults

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.329, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

  Bjork

  Song, Done, Obsession

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• Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Art, Going Out

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• I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Tired, Player, Guitar

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• I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. Everything is in tune: the voice, the type of music, who I am and who people think I am.

  Sarah Brightman

  Thinking, Who I Am, Voice

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• Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

  Phillips Brooks

  Faces, Helping, Christianity

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• It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

  Samuel Butler

  Wise, Father, Pregnancy

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4176, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Samuel Butler

  Fall, Impossible, Compromise

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

  Yancy Butler

  Mother, Father, Hypocrite

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• Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. To me, he's a great actor.

  Nicolas Cage

  Brother, Hero, Pigs

  "Not much rattling Nicolas Cage these days". Interview with Andrea Mineo, www.cnn.com. July 24, 2009.

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• I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

  Matt Cameron

  Writing, Thinking, Band

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• Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Music, Soul, Jars

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Peter Anthony Motteux (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.10

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• I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can carry a tune.

  Diablo Cody

  Voice, Singing, Terrible

  "Diablo Cody Talks YOUNG ADULT, the EVIL DEAD Remake, SWEET VALLEY HIGH, Her Directorial Debut, and a Lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 16, 2011.

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• 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.

  Leonard Cohen

  Titles, Singers, Poet

  "Leonard Cohen On Poetry, Music And Why He Left The Zen Monastery". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 21, 2016.

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