Tunes Quotes - Page 9

• I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.

  Henry Rollins

  Writing, Eight, People

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• Americans are not going to tolerate intimidation, terror and outright acts of war against this nation and its people. And we are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich ... There can be no place on earth where it is safe for these monsters to rest,or train or practice their cruel and deadly. We must act together - or unilateraly, if necessary - to ensue that these terrorists have no sanctuary, anywhere.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, War, Practice

  A speech to the American Bar Association after the TWA Flight 847 hijacking, June 14, 1985.

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• The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Military, Fighting, Swings

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• My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.

  Chick Corea

  Dad, Player, Piano

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• It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.

  Chick Corea

  Music, Blue, Play

  "Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece". Book by Ashley Kahn, www.cnn.com. 2000.

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• Avoid head trash. Don't be a garbage can for anything that does not feed your intellect, stimulate your imagination, or make you a more compassionate peaceful person. Refuse to open your mind to other people's trash. Tune out anything that promotes conflict or controversy. This can infect you with a mind virus of cynicism or defeat, and you won't even know it!

  Les Brown

  Garbage Cans, Imagination, People

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• What I enjoy about the live experience is getting onstage, being handed a guitar that is in tune, taking it off mute, knowing that the very moment I want to play a note, I can play it. People are waiting on me and I'm waiting on me, and I have no idea what I'm going to play. That's the biggest joy in life.

  John Mayer

  Guitar, Play, Ideas

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• Everyone can lock into the rhythm on a tune. It's organic in nature. It connects the band as a whole and connects the band to the audience.

  John McLaughlin

  Locks, Band, Rhythm

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• Producing is important because if there is no one making the tunes, there is nothing for the DJs to play, and nothing for the people to dance to.

  John Norman

  Play, People, Important

  Source: www.memetic.ca

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• I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most. I think that's something we can find in any person, though some people are more in tune with it or accepting of it or have moved past it and dealt with it or have a healthier thought process about it than others.

  Kristen Stewart

  Past, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal.

  Isaac Hayes

  Soul, Meat, Hats

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't look at people's expressions, because I still get nervous when I play, especially when I first put the harp up there. I just try to tune - it takes me a half-hour to tune, and I get nervous if I look at anybody when I do it.

  Joanna Newsom

  Expression, Play, People

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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• I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

  Don DeLillo

  Play, Able, Instruments

  "Intensity of a Plot". Interview with Mark Binelli, www.guernicamag.com. July 17, 2007.

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• Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up.

  Timothy Leary

  Boots, Psychedelic, Turns

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• I always really enjoyed our early days, before we got too famous. We used to play clubs and that kind of stuff all the time. And it was fun. It was good because you get to play and get quite good at the instrument. But then we got famous, and it spoiled all that, because we'd just go round and round the world singing the same 10 dopey tunes.

  George Harrison

  Fun, Play, Singing

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• For those people who are going to tune in strictly for the pyrotechnics, we have better and bigger explosions. That's a prerequisite of any sequel. But in terms of this, what we're really monitoring is watching the gas industry light our institutions, light our regulatory agencies, light our democracy on fire.

  Josh Fox

  Fire, Agency, Light

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Gossip, People

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• I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.

  Vera Farmiga

  Buddhist, Temples, Orthodox

  "Vera Farmiga on “Higher Ground”". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Riders called me up afterwards to say that they had had no other choice. I couldn't understand the way they changed their tune.

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Choices, Way, Riders

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• I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

  Petra Haden

  Cartoon, Remember, Stuck

  "Petra Haden Covers Classic Film Scores With A Single Voice". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.kcur.org. January 26, 2013.

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• As a teacher with over thirty years of experience, I've found that students are hungry for material that goes beyond simply learning tune after tune. In fact, my students suggested a good portion of the material presented here. This lesson should be an indispensable aid to the aspiring bluegrass banjoist.

  Tony Trischka

  Teacher, Years, Facts

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• European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners promises concern a four-year parliamentary term, european Union partners will be spaced out in an optimal way, in a way that is in tune with our bargaining stance in Europe and also with the fiscal position of the Greek state.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Years, Europe, Greek

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• Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.

  Gloria Estefan

  Finals, Picks, One Thing

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. October 1, 2013.

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• Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Years, Two, Musical

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• Evaluation and coaching get tangled together. When this occurs, the noise of evaluation drowns out coaching efforts. Think of this like a term paper. When you get your assignment grade back (evaluation) you tend to tune out the professor notes in the margins (coaching) if the grade is higher or lower than expected.

  Sheila Heen

  Thinking, Term Paper, Tangled

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