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• When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

  Pete Seeger

  Guitar, Play, Tunes

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• Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Heaven, Musician

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.262

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• I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and tuning to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I'm trying to do.

  Bill Cosby

  Communication, Eye, People

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• I would love to work with Salman. We have a great tuning so if we work together, it will be great fun. But till the time we don't get a good script, a script that excites both of us, we can't work together.

  Aamir Khan

  Fun, Working Together, Scripts

  "Salman is number one: Aamir Khan". www.hindustantimes.com. September 11, 2011.

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• If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so you can tune your guitar, and just learn how to play along with your records. And it's great to be able to play along with another musician. That is like trial by fire.

  Joan Jett

  Book, Play, Fire

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 7, 2013.

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• There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.

  Tim Gunn

  Doors, Cooking, Nests

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• The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Science, Design, Scientist

  Edward Robert Harrison (1986). “Masks of the universe”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• Whatever the aspect, I've tried to provide clear witness to what I've found, to resonate well enough with the harmonics of the place that the tuning can be felt in the pictures.

  Frank Gohlke

  Enough, Aspect, Found

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• What I enjoy so much about the Tonys' uniqueness is that anyone who's tuning in has an interest in seeing the show, so our job is halfway done.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Jobs, Done, Enjoy

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• When Marvel put together Ultimate Spider-Man and someone came up with the idea of having Principal Coulson, they said, "Do you want to do the voice?" I thought, "I have to do the voice!" Because I have a daughter and we watch some cartoons, I couldn't bear the idea of tuning in and hearing somebody else's voice.

  Clark Gregg

  Daughter, Men, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Perpetually doing, without ever tuning in to the center of our being, is the equivalent of fueling a mighty ship by tossing all its navigational equipment into the furnace.

  Martha Beck

  Ships, Equipment, Furnaces

  Martha Beck (2008). “The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life”, p.9, Harmony

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• A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning.

  Kim Smith

  Writing, Rocks, Creative

  Interview with V.R. Leavitt, www.goodreads.com. February 09, 2015.

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• The first instrument I had was made in the late '70s. Back then they had basically one tuning. I shifted slightly away from that tuning right away (to what is now called the Baritone Melody Tuning), because I wanted more string overlap between the two sides.The instrument I currently play has an active pickup system, Fret Rails, a fully adjustible bridge, adjustible truss, Flaps adjustible nut. Even with all of these advances, I'm always struck when I play the older instrument how good they were even then. Emmett's always been great at implementing his ideas.

  Greg Howard

  Bridges, Play, Two Sides

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• I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

  Joni Mitchell

  Guitar, Different

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• The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.

  Dennis Prager

  Numbers, Design, Enough Time

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• The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.

  R. Murray Schafer

  Hands, Secret, Trying

  R. Murray Schafer (1993). “The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Long, Conservative, Argument

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• Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Artist, Goal, Forks

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• Never having thought of writing for the guitar, I asked Julian Bream for a chart which would explain what the guitar could do. I managed to write some rather pretty pieces for him, except that the first six notes of the first piece all need to be played on open strings. So when he begins to play the audience will probably think he's tuning the bloody thing up!

  William Walton

  Writing, Thinking, Guitar

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• If you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.

  Martha Beck

  Uncomfortable Feeling, People, Decision

  "Learn how to time success and avoid failure" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2010.

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• The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.

  Herbert Wilf

  Math, Function, Subjects

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• I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the 'hollow reed'.

  Tom Kenyon

  Information, Reeds, Shamanism

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• I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

  J Mascis

  Stuff, Boundaries, Enjoy

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• It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.

  Benjamin Zander

  Symphony, Tiny, Volume

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• I love that hip-hop can still provide jobs for niggas to get money and to put their crew on. I would never say that hip-hop is going down. It's cool, but it needs an adjustment. I think that hip-hop just needs a little fine-tuning.

  Redman

  Jobs, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2007.

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