Tunes Quotes - Page 9

• Blue grass was the outgrowth of Irish music. As a matter of fact a lot the tunes, a lot of the melodies and the jigs... have different names but are actually the same tunes.

  Keith Getty

  Blue, Names, Different

  "Composer/performer Keith Getty is celebrating an Irish Christmas at venues across the USA". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. December 5, 2014.

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• I was a barmaid for my mum for years, as we lived above a pub. I still can't hear the Heartbeat theme tune without breaking into a cold sweat, as it used to start at the same time as my shift.

  Sara Cox

  Heart, Years, Sweat

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• A lot of times we associate Greenpeace and climate change and shrinking polar caps with heavy-handed, weighty material. It's somber stuff. But with Funny Or Die we thought we could put an interesting take on it. Make it a little more palatable, especially for young people who tune into the website.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Interesting, People, Littles

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• As far as comic books are concerned, I was always a Marvel guy for the most part, although I did follow DC a little. I don't know, honestly I'd just like to play whatever role [that] not just the studio, but the fans think I fit the best into. Because I think, especially in worlds like that, you've really got to do right by the fan base and stay in tune with what they are looking for and what they desire. I would just want to do right by them.

  Zachary Levi

  Book, Thinking, Play

  "Zach Levi on Being a Disney Hunk in ‘Tangled’, A Singer, A Superhero & ‘Chuck’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 18, 2010.

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• People don't tune in to watch network executives' decisions. They don't tune in to watch writers' decisions. They tune in to watch people that they like.

  Liz Brixius

  People, Decision, Watches

  Source: deadline.com

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• It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.

  Emma Goldman

  Revolution, Inspired, Vain

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.262, Courier Corporation

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• When you feel the need for a spiritual lift, try getting to bed early and get up early to have a quiet time at dawn. Then carry the serene 'in tune' feeling that comes to you into your day, no matter what you may be doing.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Up Early, Feelings

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.77, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I was certain that some people, whether by accident of birth or some pecularity of training, could tune in to another source of information and could know things about people we didn't think were possible to know.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, People, Training

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.291, Vintage

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• The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level.

  Horace Silver

  Play, Ensemble, Band

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• ...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spirit

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• You know when you play in the big away games that the fans are going to be behind their team and will be booing you. As a professional you need to tune yourself out of that part of the game and concentrate on the job at hand.

  David Beckham

  Jobs, Team, Hands

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• Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

  Paul Desmond

  Glasses, Want, Haze

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• I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.

  Wayne Rooney

  Musical, Monkeys, Arctic

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• Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

  Alan Alda

  School, Exercise, Keys

  "An Interview with TV Legend Alan Alda". "Pop Culture Passionistas" Interview, www.popculturepassionistasarchive.com. December 9, 2010.

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• Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know the Harry Nilsson record.

  George Harrison

  Player, Guitar, Guy

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• I like me some of Wayne stuff. I think he's the one exception as far as the auto-tune thing goes.

  GZA

  Thinking, Auto Tune, Stuff

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• We in the Congress have a moral and constitutional obligation to protect the value of the dollar and to understand why it is so important to the economy that a central bank not be given the unbelievable power of inflating a currency at will and pretending that it knows how to fine-tune an economy through this counterfeit system of money.

  Ron Paul

  Important, Dollars, Moral

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• Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Writing, Tone, Composer

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• It's great when somebody is able to communicate an actual shot sequence to you and you know the world you're inhabiting with that. It's literally a haunting tune.

  Dan Stevens

  World, Haunting, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• I really do just try to tune as much out as I can and make things that I think just sound good to me.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Thinking, Trying, Sound

  "The Sound of Serial: Composer Nick Thorburn Explains the Making of the Podcast Score". Interview with Sandy Honig, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2014.

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• I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

  Scoot McNairy

  Thinking, Acting, Behavior

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2014.

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• A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?' Well, we stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: tradition!

  Sheldon Harnick

  Crazy, Home, Simple

  "Fictional character: Tevye". "Fiddler on the Roof", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

  Quincy Jones

  Thinking, Voice, Symphony

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• Running Makes you more spiritually aware and in tune with your inner-self.

  Fauja Singh

  Running, Self, Inner Self

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• I met Jason Mraz when he had a concert in Korea as a cover contest winner of his songs! He was super nice to even tune the guitar that I also won from the contest for me and we decided to jam to one of his hit songs, ”Lucky”. I actually don’t remember how I was able to sing because I was so nervous at the time but it would also be a dream come true if i can have the honor to share the stage with Jason Mraz one day!

  Megan Lee

  Dream, Song, Nice

  "Interview with Megan Lee of Make It Pop!". Glitter Magazine Interview, glittermagrocks.com. March 25, 2015.

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