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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but agnosticism—to admit that we don't know and to search—is all right. ... When I look at what I call the gift of life, I feel a gratitude which is in tune with some religious ideas of God. However, the moment I even speak of it, I am embarrassed that I may do something wrong to God in talking about God.

  Karl Popper

  Gratitude, Religious, Talking

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• The words are the important thing. Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune.

  Woody Guthrie

  Worry, Important, Lows

  "Readers recommend: songs that sample, recycle and reinvent" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2014.

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• There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

  Harlan Coben

  Force, Feels, Ifs

  "Six years". Book by Harlan Coben, 2013.

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• I am inside someone
  who hates me. I look
  out from his eyes. Smell
  what fouled tunes come in
  to his breath. Love his
  wretched women.

  Amiri Baraka

  Hate, Eye, Smell

  Amiri Baraka (2015). “S O S: Poems 1961-2013”, p.67, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Three, Trouble, Range

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• Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune.

  Thomas Adams

  Heart, Eye, Ahab

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• As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose,
  Float in the garden when no wind blows,
  Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows;
  So the old tunes float in my mind,
  And go from me leaving no trace behind,
  Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.

  Sara Teasdale

  Music, Blow, Garden

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.18, Рипол Классик

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• In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.

  Dudley Moore

  Music, Growing Up, Average

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• He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to.

  Geoff Dyer

  Errors, Never Quit, Keyboards

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• Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then.

  Philip Sheridan

  Book, Play, Mind

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• It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE. Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered. The results: an exponentially increased ability to tune up / reinvent / WOW-ize today's project at work.

  Tom Peters

  Education, Work, Curiosity

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