Tunes Quotes - Page 4

• Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.

  Karen Armstrong

  Reality, World, Logos

  "Karen Armstrong Builds A 'Case For God'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 21, 2009.

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• A woman who rides a motorcycle is in tune with the universe, a candidate for high adventure.

  Celestine Sibley

  Adventure, Motorcycle, Candidates

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• I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

  Earl Scruggs

  Giving, Attention, Littles

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• Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.

  Ralph Marston

  Sides, Moments, Treasured

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• This influential, yet controversial idea requires that the mixture of species on Earth at any moment acts as a collective organism that continuously (yet unwittingly) tunes Earth's atmospheric composition and climate to promote the presence of life... But I'd bet there are some dead Martians and Venusians who advanced the same theory about their own planets a billion years ago.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Ideas, Years

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.210, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Blues purists never cared for me. I don't worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made 'Three O' Clock Blues,' they were not there. The people out there made the tune. And blues purists just wrote about it. The people is who I'm trying to satisfy.

  B. B. King

  Thinking, Worry, People

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• We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.

  Adora Svitak

  School, Media, Connections

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• Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original tunes that I have heard in a long time.

  Christopher Anderson

  Goodbye, Strong, Dad

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• The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Spirit

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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• In the pop world, instead of saying I want to get an album by such and such a group, it's I like this particular tune and that one I like less. I think it's much better to get involved with an artist instead of riding up and down the works you like and disregard the works you don't like.

  Steve Reich

  Thinking, Artist, Want

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2006.

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• I love music. I've just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be.

  Queen Latifah

  Ideas, People, House

  "Queen Latifah Takes Her Last Holiday". MovieWeb interview, movieweb.com. January 11, 2006.

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• But O, sick children of the world,
  Of all the many changing things
  In dreary dancing past us whirled,
  To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,
  Words alone are certain good.

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Children, Past

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.142, Penguin

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• A bird half wakened in the lunar noon
  Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

  Robert Frost

  Bird, Noon, Half

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
  They are in tune and step
  with constellations of universal law.

  Carl Sandburg

  Men, Law, Unity

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.616, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Yet the companions of the Muses
  will keep their collective nose in my books
  And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Data, Historical

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down my hair, took apart my psyche, cleaned the pieces, and put them together again in much improved condition. I feel like a car that's just had a tune-up. Only another woman could have acted as the mechanic.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Women, Hair

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.51, Ballantine Books

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• Now shall my inward joys arise,
  And burst into a song;
  Almighty love inspires my heart,
  And pleasure tunes my tongue.

  Isaac Watts

  Song, Heart, Joy

  Isaac Watts (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.111

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• Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
  No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
  O may my heart in tune be found
  Like David's harp of solemn sound.

  Isaac Watts

  Sweet, Heart, Sound

  Isaac Watts (1821). “An arrangement of the Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.419

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• I play any piano with a good tune.

  Pinetop Perkins

  Play, Piano

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• If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice at all, he might truly have been said to have done so instinctively.

  Charles Darwin

  Years, Practice, Three

  Charles Darwin (2016). “On the Origin of Species”, p.158, Zillmann Publishing

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• People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Inspirational, Music, People

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• When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brainthat is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious--to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.

  Edward T. Hall

  Exercise, Numbers, People

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• Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations.

  Ruby Dee

  People, Giving, Taste

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• When I started making my own music, I was more about recreating what I was hearing. I noticed that I had some control over what I was saying, and the effects that it's going to have on people. I wanted to focus more on the positive side of things, which are more in tune with my morals and ethics.

  Lupe Fiasco

  People, Focus, Sides

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 31, 2006.

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• There's really never any sort of master plan. I find if I've got a couple of tunes that I think are possibilities, I phone everyone up and get them into the studio and we'll have a go at recording them.

  Nick Lowe

  Couple, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.gq.com

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