Tunes Quotes - Page 26

• The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

  C. S. Lewis

  Law, Play, Keys

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Love, Tired, Hollywood

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• I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs. I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.

  Paul Anka

  Song, Teenage, Stupid

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• We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were written while we were in India a year before. So there was just a bit of chorus here and a verse there. We welded them all together into a routine.

  George Harrison

  Music, Song, Years

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• When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

  Sheryl Crow

  Guitar, Way, Different

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• Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld Lang Syne' are good, but the music is an old air, the rudiments of the modern tune of that name. ... Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ... Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure thrill the deepest notes of woe. ... Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

  Robert Burns

  Cutting, Men, Scotch

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• I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs. I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes. ... The thing is to be able to outlast the trends. ... They are actually manufactured entertainment groups. They are a product of technology. What you are listening to is technology.

  Paul Anka

  Song, Teenage, Stupid

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• Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys, or between major and minor.

  Paul Zollo

  Writing, Simple, Keys

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• In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is no more than an extremely rapid skilfully carried out improvement of the originally inexactly located pitch.

  Carl Flesch

  Music, Improvement, Rapids

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• I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same notes over and over. Chirps and tweets and trills and burples. It's as if the insect orchestra is forever tuning its instruments, forever waiting for the maestro to tap his baton and bring them to order. I, for one, hope the maestro never comes. I love the music mess of it.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Music, Summer, Order

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.

  Guy Clark

  Fantasy, Performing, Fiddle

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• I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.

  Kevin Kline

  Song, Writing, Men

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• I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth of tunes, and they were really pretty -but totally meaningless. So in the end I came up with material I liked. We worked on The Lion King for four years, but I wasn't toying until the last three-and-a-half weeks properly. On Crimson Tide, on the other hand, I just went in and within seconds I knew what I wanted.

  Hans Zimmer

  Music, Kings, Hands

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• I might not be able to hold my drink or my man, but what I can hold, is a tune. Point me in the right direction and give me a bloody mic.

  Lindsey Kelk

  Men, Giving, Might

  Lindsey Kelk (2013). “Lindsey Kelk 2-Book Bestsellers Collection: About a Girl, I Heart New York”, p.50, HarperCollins UK

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• So I went ahead and made me a guitar. Igot me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, takeme a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I gotme some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised itup high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got mea tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.

  Lightnin' Hopkins

  Cutting, Guitar, Bridges

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• The best tunes are songs with a face. You recognize them. You know them. It’s like a person. They have a face that’s outstanding. Other songs don’t have a face. You just hear them, that’s all. The really good ones are few and far between.

  Cindy Walker

  Song, Faces, Outstanding

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• I get to hang out with Billy Bob Thornton at his house. We hang out over there every time we're in L.A., because he doesn't go out. We'll hang and he'll play us some of his tunes. It's pretty awesome.

  Chris Daughtry

  Play, House, Bob

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.

  Yvonne Strahovski

  Cinema, Favorites Things, Freak

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

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• My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Lying, Soul, Harmony

  Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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• Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut....In their first joint appearance they gave a preview of the Gore-Lieberman fight-back, comeback strategy. Their message: They represent the future, not the past, and they are the ticket of high moral standards most in tune with real mainstream America.

  Dan Rather

  Running, Real, Fighting

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• I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.

  Madeline Kahn

  Self, Sound, Looks

  Interview with Charlie Rose, December 16, 1996.

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• That sound in tune to you?.. Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should do that. Maybe I got it from her. She said singers when they grow old have a tendency to go flat. So if you sing sharp as a young person, as you get older and go flat, you'll be in tune. In other words, it's never thought good to be flat. It means you can't get to the tone.

  Charles Mingus

  Teacher, Mean, Singing

  "Mingus/Mingus: Two Memoirs". Book by Janet Coleman and Al Youn, 1989.

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• If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

  George Lucas

  Girl, Years, Fantasy

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

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• I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done. You can tune me out, you can click me off, it's OK. I am not going to bow to political correctness.

  Joan Rivers

  Regret, Party, Political

  "6 Lessons Joan Rivers Learned Throughout Her Life" by Jen Glantz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2014.

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• You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.

  Iggy Pop

  Dark, Two, Fifty

  "Message from under the rock - musician Iggy Pop". Interview Magazine Interview, September 1999.

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