Tunes Quotes - Page 19

• Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Tuning, Harps, Percent

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• I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Growing Up, Thinking, Rocks

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• I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

  Taylor Swift

  Auto Tune, Promise, Television

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• The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

  Steve Vai

  Miserable, Instruments, I Can

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

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• I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

  Don Van Vliet

  Thinking, Play, Horny

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• One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

  Sarah Vowell

  Summer, Night, Massachusetts

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

  Tom Waits

  School, Listening, Trying

  Interview with Terry Gross, wyso.org. November 3, 2011.

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• The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

  Johnny Weir

  Summer, Events, Olympics

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• 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

  Florence Welch

  Dog, Wall, Play

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• 'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, wailing tune. It's kind of like a total house anthem, in a way, but it seems to be going down really well. We've got all the grunge kids going mad for disco house raves.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Real, Kids

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• With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.

  James Wolcott

  Thinking, Islands, President

  "What’s Wrong With Washington?" by James Wolcott, www.vanityfair.com. May 2009.

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• I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.

  Donnie Yen

  Art, Childhood, Trying

  Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.

  Thom Yorke

  Mean, Simple, Thinking

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• That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.

  John Zorn

  Writing, Years, Challenges

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• Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.

  Nora Roberts

  Land, Dancing, Dreamer

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.14, Penguin

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• Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.

  Bill Bryson

  Dancing, Watches, Complaining

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

  Maya Angelou

  Bird, Hills, Trill

  Maya Angelou (2013). “Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?”, p.20, Random House

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• AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten.

  James Russell Lowell

  Summer, June, Perfect Days

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.”, p.56, tredition

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• The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

  Nora Roberts

  Romance, Lovely, Tears

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' The Irish Born Trilogy”, p.19, Penguin

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• i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell

  Don Marquis

  Sleep, Moon, Oysters

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.272, Penguin

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• To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June- To know her not-Affliction- To own her for a Friend A warmth as near as if the the Sun Were shining in your Hand.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hands, June, Shining

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.761, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sweet, Strong, Ambition

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• Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Athlete, Self, Dancer

  FaceBook post by Lynne Sharon Schwartz from Oct 22, 2014

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• Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Clothes, Boots

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols,breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Memories, Flower

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