Tunes Quotes

• I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

  Buddy Rich

  Thinking, Play, Mind

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• For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Art, Flower

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  Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

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• As this New Year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you.

  Billy Graham

  New Year, Years, Joy

  Billy Graham (2014). “Hope for Each Day Signature Edition: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mother, Mind, Taught

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• We cannot expect to be in control of the circumstances in our lives when we cannot control our minds for five minutes. Meditation is the daily minimum requirement that will prevent us from breaking down and falling apart at the most inopportune moments. It is the art of listening. It is a practice which enables us to tune in and fine-tune the key areas of our lives: the mind and the spirit.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Art, Fall, Keys

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Nov 25, 2015

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• I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Yankees, Two, Civil War

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

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• Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

  Timothy Leary

  Cannabis, Turns, Turn-on

  Timothy Leary (2003). “Musings on Human Metamorphoses”, p.128, Ronin Publishing

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• Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

  Wayne Dyer

  Cheating, Money, Abundance Of Love

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

  George Washington Carver

  Love, God, Nature

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• The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean Girls, Women, Age

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• I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Thank You, Orchestra, Length

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• And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the Thing in the Cellar. Call it the Blow Lunch Factor. Call it the Loony Tunes File. I think of it as my private dinosaur, huge, slimy, and mindless, stumbling around in the stinking swamp of my subconscious, never finding a tar pit big enough to hold it.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Dark, Blow

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• Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

  Jim Rohn

  Voice, Entrepreneur, Tuning

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 14, 2016

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• Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Car, Parent, Actors

  "From Child Actor To Artist: Radcliffe Reflects On Post-Potter Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wshu.org. October 11, 2013.

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• Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

  Richie Sambora

  Sports, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Tuning, Harps, Percent

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• I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Growing Up, Thinking, Rocks

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• I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

  Taylor Swift

  Auto Tune, Promise, Television

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• The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

  Steve Vai

  Miserable, Instruments, I Can

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

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• I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

  Don Van Vliet

  Thinking, Play, Horny

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• One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

  Sarah Vowell

  Summer, Night, Massachusetts

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

  Tom Waits

  School, Listening, Trying

  Interview with Terry Gross, wyso.org. November 3, 2011.

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• The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

  Johnny Weir

  Summer, Events, Olympics

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• 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

  Florence Welch

  Dog, Wall, Play

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