Tunes Quotes - Page 20

• Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

  Billy Bragg

  Struggle, Cutting, Reality

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• ... The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune of Camptown Races. Nobody has to stand up for it, nobody has to listen to it, and, even better, nobody has to play it.

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Race, Play

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• Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well the horned head: We poor lads, 'tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time. Moping, melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.

  A. E. Housman

  Stupid, Humorous, Sleep

  A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 1 (1896)

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• One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Auto Tune, Strict, Policy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People got a little too self-conscious about the techniques that go into recording because sometimes, if you sing too well in tune, people accuse you of auto-tuning. It's like you have to use auto-detuning or something.

  Todd Rundgren

  Self, People, Use

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A right combination of image & tune plunges the audience into a hal (something between emotional/aesthetic mood & trance of hyperawareness), outbursts of weeping, fits of dancing--measurable physical response to art. For us the link between poetry & body died with the bardic era--we read under the influence of a cartesian anaesthetic gas.

  Hakim

  Art, Emotional, Dancing

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• You'll change your tune quickly enough when some banshee's sucking your soul out through your pupils.

  Ari Marmell

  Soul, Enough, Banshees

  Ari Marmell (2017). “The Conqueror's Shadow”, p.76, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for harmony. He thought about the Pythagorean major third, the Didymus comma, the way the intervals sound out of tune rather than as though they were different notes. This, he thought, was where his brilliance at mathematics bled into his love of music; music was the realm in which his mathematical brain danced.

  Ru Freeman

  Brain, Sound, Different

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• Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.

  John Dos Passos

  Men, Play, Optimism

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me.

  George Steiner

  Dream, Song, Infidelity

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.210, Faber & Faber

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• The inner music of the Soul is the real song. It's tunes are self-existing and self-supporting and need no outer aids of hands, feet or tongue and lead to the source from whence they come, the Minstrel divine.

  Kirpal Singh

  Song, Real, Self

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• INNATE is God in human beings. INNATE is good in human
  beings. INNATE cannot be cheated, violated, or tricked. INNATE is always
  waiting, ready to communicate with you, and when INNATE is in contact
  you are in tune with the Infinite.

  B. J. Palmer

  Waiting, Infinite, Cheated

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• I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

  Willie Nelson

  Song, Voice, Singing

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• The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe is made of music, not of matter. And we believe that if you habitually expose yourself to toxic stories and music, you could wind up living in the wrong universe, where it's impossible to become the gorgeous genius you were born to be. That's why we implore you to nourish yourself with delicious, nutritious tales and tunes that inspire you to exercise your willpower for your highest good.

  Rob Brezsny

  Music, Believe, Exercise

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• Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Pride, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.

  Rene Coty

  Piano, Pity, Pianist

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• Halloween festivities included an epic scavenger hunt & lots of Looney Tunes.

  Dianna Agron

  Halloween, Epic, Hunts

  FaceBook post by Dianna Agron from Oct 29, 2012

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• The kirtana of Madhava has an almost magnetic influence. The mind and heart get totally attracted, then drawn into the inside world where one can meet the soul of the universe. Tune in and you will have a deeply rewarding, spiritual experience.

  Sacinandana Swami

  Spiritual, Heart, Soul

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• Beyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality.

  Paula Abdul

  Spirituality, Found

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• Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.

  Isla Fisher

  Order, Able, Succeed

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

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• I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.

  Paul O'Grady

  Children, Aunt, Obsessed

  "Paul O'Grady: 'You could torture me on the rack and I'd still refuse to eat balut'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2011.

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• I've had albums out since the 1970s. I was in a musical, 'The Boy Friend,' directed by Ken Russell, and I was on Broadway in 'My One And Only' with Tommy Tune, so I've always been a singer, but I suppose people think of my modelling more.

  Twiggy

  Boys, Thinking, People

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• Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.

  Marlee Matlin

  Body, Way, Saws

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• My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.

  Timothy Leary

  People, Advice, Dropping Out

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

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• I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do.

  Wentworth Miller

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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