Tunes Quotes - Page 17

• Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

  Dimebag Darrell

  The End Of The Day, Wakes You, Chill

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• I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or Latin prescription for piles.

  Les Dawson

  Latin, Ideas, Ravel

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

  Lena Dunham

  Artist, Parent, World

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. June 15, 2012.

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• When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.

  Sheena Easton

  Albums, Made, Blast

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• I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

  Zac Efron

  Cartoon, Fundamentals, Taught

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• When I was a kid, you would tune in to "The Tonight Show" before you went to sleep. Johnny Carson. A big treat. I know it's a privilege of mine to be able to be in people's homes. So I hope I make everyone proud, including my parents, and do a good job in this.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Sleep, Kids

  "Fallon lays out familiar 'Tonight Show' vision". Interview with Steve Johnson, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 10, 2013.

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• I've watched and learnt from DJs and remixers and paid way more attention to how I want my voice to sound. Before, as long as it was loud and in tune it was fine. I've discovered the difference made by various microphones and effects, so each track has a different vocal sound, my voice is woven into everything and it's above everything.

  Ellie Goulding

  Voice, Differences, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Engagement, World

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.

  Charlie Haden

  Writing, Play, Way

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• As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

  Gary Hamel

  Stupid, Writing, Garden

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• When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Mtv, Realizing, Episodes

  "Undercover Brother". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com. June 4, 2002.

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• Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

  Levon Helm

  Seems

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• I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!

  Ken Hensley

  Men, Thinking, Guitar

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• I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

  Billie Holiday

  Change, Music, Hate

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• A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

  Mike Huckabee

  Leader, Vision, Needs

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• I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

  Hugh Jackman

  Children, Light, Two

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• My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

  Etta James

  Mother, Play, Piano

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• This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

  Etta James

  Song, Years, Albums

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• Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Dance, Wonderful

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from May 06, 2015

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• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Pride, Average

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• I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.

  Anna Kendrick

  Artist, Thinking, Fire

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• You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

  Jack Kerouac

  Maestro, Teach

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.161, Penguin

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• I stay in tune with my family and God.

  Regina King

  Family, Stay Strong, Stay Positive

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

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• I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

  Steve Lacy

  Crazy, Stupid, Years

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• When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.

  Steve Lacy

  Horny, Fit, Monk

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