Tunes Quotes

679 Tunes quotes by 553 unique authors

Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes. — Noel Gallagher
There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write. — Noel Gallagher
To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or… — Laurence Sterne
The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of… — G. M. Trevelyan
Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren't partyin'. — Bill Hicks
Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or just listen to… — Joan Littlewood
We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur — Nicholas D. Kristof
If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then… — Jack Canfield
I heard the opening bar of 'Help' as I headed down Polk Street. Every single time I've heard that tune I've taken it as some… — Oscar Zeta Acosta
Gimme the tune. Do I like this tune? Does it sound like another tune that I like? The more familiar it is, the better I… — Frank Zappa
Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that's something that… — Stephen Stills
In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic… — Charles Ives
All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make… — Charles Ives
Everybody else goes out and plays a show as if it's their album, which is boring. I'd rather sit at home and listen to the… — Dweezil Zappa
I find that in California I can't find guys that have enough energy. They play a little bit and that's about it. They play less.… — Pharoah Sanders
They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was… — Horace Silver
When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes! — Keith Jarrett
I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son. — Duke Ellington
The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in… — Barry Diller
A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a way,… — Robert Pinsky
My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle. — Liberace
I don't drive, so one of my assistants drives me to my writing room, and I have a calendar on the wall telling me how… — Hans Zimmer
When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are… — Francoise Hardy
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience — Galen
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in… — G. H. Hardy

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