Tunes Quotes - Page 40

• The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. I believe you can only do this when you stop long enough to hear the whisper you might have drowned out, that small voice compelling you toward the kind of work you'd be willing to do even if you weren't paid. Once you tune out the noise of your life and hear that call, you face the biggest challenge of all: to find the courage to seek out your big dream, regardless of what anyone else says or thinks.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

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• If we were in tune and communing with God every moment, where would be the need to pray or ask for anything?

  Daya Mata

  Love, Would Be, Needs

  Daya Mata (1976). “Only Love”, Self Realization Fellowship Pub

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• The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But Cloe is my real flame. My softest verse, my darling lyre Upon Euphelia's toilet lay - When Cloe noted her desire That I should sing, that I should play. My lyre I tune, my voice I raise, But with my numbers mix my sighs; And whilst I sing Euphelia's praise, I fix my soul on Cloe's eyes. Fair Cloe blushed; Euphelia frowned: I sung, and gazed; I played, and trembled: And Venus to the Loves around Remarked how ill we all dissembled.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Real, Eye

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• I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is to move from one vein to the other without any trouble. The biggest thing to me is keeping a feeling, regardless what you play. So many cats lose their feeling at various times, not through the whole tune, but at various times, and it causes them to have to build up and drop down, and you can feel it.

  Wes Montgomery

  Moving, Cat, Play

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• It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

  Wes Montgomery

  Believe, Thinking, Play

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• We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

  Oscar Peterson

  Night, Journey, Musician

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• Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing 'Melancholy Baby' and you've got dance music.

  Artie Shaw

  Baby, Giving, Needs

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• When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.

  Eartha Kitt

  Funny, Dog, Training

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• The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Voice, Tuning, Radio

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, The Power of the Word, Cosmic Language”, Library of Alexandria

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• The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it is also practice which makes man perfect. If someone tells me that a certain person is miserable or wretched or distressed, my answer will be that he is out of tune.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Men, Study Life, Order

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Smiling Forehead”, Library of Alexandria

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• THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace in our own realms, nurture life, and prevent death and destruction. The true meaning of the term samurai is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Samurai, Weapons

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.70, Shambhala Publications

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• In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.

  David Amram

  Atmosphere, Church, Musician

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• I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

  John Lee Hooker

  Stay Strong, Time, Thinking

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• The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.

  Geoffrey Faber

  Doe, Pay, Pipers

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• We all have music in us - your heartbeat is your drum, your voice is your sound - and music is supposed to put you in tune with nature.

  Randy Weston

  Sound And Music, Voice, Heartbeat

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• The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Men, Medicine

  Francis Bacon (1859). “The Works”, p.371

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• Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.

  Pierre Danos

  Player, Piano, Rugby

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• Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Variation, Life Is

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.322, Courier Corporation

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• We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, Play, People

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• He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Black And White, Cities

  "Fictional character: Isaac Davis". Comedy, Drama, Romance, www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Sleep, Heart

  "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 1 (1807)

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• A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sleep, Night, June

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 5

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• TURN ON. to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation. TUNE IN. to harness and communicate these new perspectives in a harmonious dance with the external world. DROP OUT. detach yourself from the tribal game. current models of social adjustement - mechanized, computerized, socialized, intellectualized, televised, sanforized - make no sense to the new LSD generation who see clearly that American society is becoming an air-conditioned anthill.

  Timothy Leary

  Air, Games, Perspective

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• I don't know nothing about the sport. Just tune in August 28th and y'all find out how much I know about the sport.

  James Toney

  Sports, Motivation, August

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• To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.

  Pico Iyer

  Inspiring, World, Way

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