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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!

  Tom Stoppard

  Song, Real, Mean

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia”, p.62, Faber & Faber

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• Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.

  Haruki Murakami

  Time, Heart, Contracts

  "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami, (Ch. 23), 2002.

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• It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.

  Kristin Cashore

  Goodbye, Hurt, Fire

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• I let out a laugh that sounded more like the yip of a startled poodle. "Superp-powers? I wish. My powers aren't winning me a slot on the Cartoon Network anytime soon... except as a comic relief. Ghost Whisperer Junior. Or Ghost Screamer, more like it. Tune in, every week, as Chloe Saunders runs screaming from yet another ghost looking for her help." Okay, superpower might be pushing it.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Running, Winning, Laughing

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• Peter stood, cleared his throat, and began to hum softly, then sing, slowly building up the song as his voice cleared. He found the old tune, the song of the Sunbird. And as he sung, as his rich voice echoed off the tall cliffs, the birds and the faeries lent him their voice and soon the tune drifted throughtout the garden.

  Brom

  Song, Garden, Building Up

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• The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Heartbroken, Forever, Bagpipes

  Peter S Beagle (2007). “A Fine & Private Place”, p.140, Tachyon Publications

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• The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Stars, Heart, Men

  Letter from Iceland (1937, by Auden and MacNeice) "Letter to William Coldstream, Esq."

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• Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Stars, Moving, Bangs

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.181, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither. Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Winter

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. 1

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• Intentions don't matter. It's the end result we're all judged by. Evil in the name of good is still evil. And when you dance with the devil, you seldom get to pick the tune.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Names, Evil, Matter

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.228, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Sung to the tune of O Christmas Tree O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree, But it was eaten by a newt, And now I have no cuddly fruit, O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree!

  Clive Barker

  Woe Is Me, Tree, Fruit

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