Tunes Quotes - Page 8

• I don't look at people's expressions, because I still get nervous when I play, especially when I first put the harp up there. I just try to tune - it takes me a half-hour to tune, and I get nervous if I look at anybody when I do it.

  Joanna Newsom

  Expression, Play, People

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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• I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

  Don DeLillo

  Play, Able, Instruments

  "Intensity of a Plot". Interview with Mark Binelli, www.guernicamag.com. July 17, 2007.

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• I just love feeling myself, and moving, flexing, jumping, expressing, dancing and doing movement. I'm in tune with it. I like to express myself with my body, more so than intellectually. But, I am a geek.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Moving, Jumping, Dancing

  Source: collider.com

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• Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up.

  Timothy Leary

  Boots, Psychedelic, Turns

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• I always really enjoyed our early days, before we got too famous. We used to play clubs and that kind of stuff all the time. And it was fun. It was good because you get to play and get quite good at the instrument. But then we got famous, and it spoiled all that, because we'd just go round and round the world singing the same 10 dopey tunes.

  George Harrison

  Fun, Play, Singing

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• Although I have guitars all around and I pick themm up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics amd I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.

  George Harrison

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• I don't have to have talent. I just need to have auto-tune and be allowed to have the hottest track in the game, and my swag.

  Spencer Pratt

  Swag, Games, Auto Tune

  Source: www.complex.com

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• For those people who are going to tune in strictly for the pyrotechnics, we have better and bigger explosions. That's a prerequisite of any sequel. But in terms of this, what we're really monitoring is watching the gas industry light our institutions, light our regulatory agencies, light our democracy on fire.

  Josh Fox

  Fire, Agency, Light

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Gossip, People

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• I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Children, Book, Past

  E. L. Konigsburg (1995). “Talktalk: a children's book author speaks to grown-ups”, Atheneum Books

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• I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.

  Vera Farmiga

  Buddhist, Temples, Orthodox

  "Vera Farmiga on “Higher Ground”". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Riders called me up afterwards to say that they had had no other choice. I couldn't understand the way they changed their tune.

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Choices, Way, Riders

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• It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/ realism/ story time tell-tale-ism, black and white 35 mm film, washed in strange light, over this love hate tune, heartbreak song, life-goes-on lullaby, The Last Goodbye. It's a doorway into the future of the fatal past-tense. Get it?

  Alison Mosshart

  Goodbye, Song, Hate

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• With more people, there are more voices to tune out.

  Susan Sontag

  Voice, People

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

  Petra Haden

  Cartoon, Remember, Stuck

  "Petra Haden Covers Classic Film Scores With A Single Voice". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.kcur.org. January 26, 2013.

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• As a teacher with over thirty years of experience, I've found that students are hungry for material that goes beyond simply learning tune after tune. In fact, my students suggested a good portion of the material presented here. This lesson should be an indispensable aid to the aspiring bluegrass banjoist.

  Tony Trischka

  Teacher, Years, Facts

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• I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

  Ian McLagan

  Mom, Hurt, Dad

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• European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners promises concern a four-year parliamentary term, european Union partners will be spaced out in an optimal way, in a way that is in tune with our bargaining stance in Europe and also with the fiscal position of the Greek state.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Years, Europe, Greek

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• Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.

  Gloria Estefan

  Finals, Picks, One Thing

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. October 1, 2013.

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• My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember Sky." It's probably the saddest song of all time I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

  Laura Benanti

  Song, Mirrors, Sky

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream of consciousness that exists in music, nobody knows where that comes from.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Song, Play, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory.

  Saint Augustine

  Running, Lonely, Hero

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• The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspire, Purpose, How You Feel

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• Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Years, Two, Musical

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• Evaluation and coaching get tangled together. When this occurs, the noise of evaluation drowns out coaching efforts. Think of this like a term paper. When you get your assignment grade back (evaluation) you tend to tune out the professor notes in the margins (coaching) if the grade is higher or lower than expected.

  Sheila Heen

  Thinking, Term Paper, Tangled

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