Tunes Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda, Krishnananda Saraswati, Mark Cuban, Michael Welch, Tommy Chong, Tom Felton and many others.
Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people… Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of grace. I do so because I know, more surely than I know anything, that any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God.
What is called ‘capitalism‘ might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.
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.
The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own.
Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper… a windshield wiper that’s fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing ‘Melancholy Baby’ and you’ve got dance music.
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
I want kids to understand that making pictures is similar to making music; there are so many instruments and so many tunes that the possibilities for how you play are truly limitless.
Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the harmony we desire. As we raise our level of consciousness we become more in tune with the true nature of our being. This type of awareness is not an accident; it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.
Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up.
When I auditioned for the show, I didn’t realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.
I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel’s ‘Pavane pour une infante defunte’ but I couldn’t remember if it’s a tune or Latin prescription for piles.
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it’s laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe – we are happiest when we are creating.
When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my rГ©sumГ© with everything I had ever done-ice-skate, carry a tune.
I’ll sit around and play my guitar; that’s how I write tunes.
It was more just about serving the song, which is sort of the way that we work in general. We wanna do the best that we can with it and make it the most interesting to our ears. And putting auto-tune on ‘California English‘, was just one reflection of that.
I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they’re huge or not, you know? I’m the kind of person who doesn’t realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.
President Obama‘s health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.
The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.
Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Songs that aren’t even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. ‘Frosty the Snowman,’ ‘Jingle Bells‘ and ‘Winter Wonderland‘ never mention anything religious but are still notches in Christmas’ belt of musical dominance.
Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
They are in tune and step
with constellations of universal law.
They are in tune and step
with constellations of universal law.
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.
Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance.
I don’t think about time. You’re here when you’re here. I think about today, staying in tune.
My favorite thing to hear from people is, ‘I left the theater and couldn’t stop thinking about it.’ You want your work to have an impact after they leave the theater. It’s the equivalent of leaving a musical humming a show tune.
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.
Wild rivers are earth’s renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.
In 1970, my label decided I should do a Christmas album and I put a bunch of tunes together. We couldn’t decide what to call it and so I said ‘Why not just say Merry Christmas in Spanish? Feliz Navidad.’ They said, ‘That’s cool, Jose, but we need a title song.’ So I just sat down and started to play.
I started getting more in tune with who I am by doing roles or even just being in a class and being around people.
Here’s the way the licensing works … If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your permission. But, once the song is recorded, they can get what’s called a ‘compulsory license‘, and they can record the tune, but they have to pay you royalties.
I feel like some of my baby fat is going away, and that’s not just physically, it’s psychologically. I think that your body is in tune with your mind and your spirituality and your heart. If things are going better, I just think you look better.
I love music. I’ve just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be.
It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers
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.
Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present.
When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that’s the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.
In the pop world, instead of saying I want to get an album by such and such a group, it’s I like this particular tune and that one I like less. I think it’s much better to get involved with an artist instead of riding up and down the works you like and disregard the works you don’t like.
Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a certain amount of courage. In my early twenties, if I wasn’t getting good enough at it, then people would not come and see me. Anybody who has lasted this long – I hope we get better with age.
With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren’t the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren’t all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.
I am convinced that not only do children need children’s books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.
The best tunes are songs with a face. You recognize them. You know them. It’s like a person. They have a face that’s outstanding. Other songs don’t have a face. You just hear them, that’s all. The really good ones are few and far between.
When you dance with the devil, you don’t get to pick the tune.
To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June– To know her not-Affliction– To own her for a Friend A warmth as near as if the the Sun Were shining in your Hand.
I just start singing some words with a tune. I don’t ever write a song thinking, Now I’ll write a song about… .
When you’ve heard one bagpipe tune, you’ve heard them both.
I don’t know what any of my tunes are about, they’re just out there. I’m not good with words. I just say the first thing that comes into my head
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
I never write a tune before the lyrics. I get the lyrics and then I write around them. Some people write music and the lyrics come along and they say, ‘Oh yeah, I’ve got something to fit that.’ If that’s the way people write songs, I feel like you might as well just go to the supermarket.
I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I’m still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
If you know you’re going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don’t get distracted by what’s going on and focus better.
When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness.
Everything in the universe belongs to me.
Everything in the universe belongs to me.
I would like to inform the public that I have entered into a licensing agreement with Agi Music for manufacturing and distributing my songs in any format and have also granted the license to distribute my songs on digital and new media formats, including mobile ringtones, caller tunes, and online downloads.
I love rearranging and reimagining tunes, so I want my audience to enjoy hearing songs in a new way and make their own discoveries.
Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life.
There’s cleanliness to how I eat now. I’m much more in tune with my body, so now that I’m so in tune based on having become a semivegan, I can tell what foods affect energy levels. I can tell when I’ve been eating particularly high nutrient foods or I can tell when my glycemic levels are all over the place.
Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck’s personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.
I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film – something like ‘Titanic‘.
I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn’t anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.
Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us ‘tune out’ for self-protection.
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.
If you don’t have an album or you don’t have any tune, you can’t start.
I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
I use my music to tune myself.
Then little writings and recordings that thankfully continue to come up. I’m in this kind of wonderful, kind of awkward, off-putting, and strange position where there’s nothing I want to do more than continue to make music, but the ways that I do things are not in tune with how I can do them commercially.
We’re not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude.
I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.
I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.
When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.
Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.
There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it’s like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I’ve finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.
Real men don’t dance to other people’s tune, instead, they play for others to dance.
It took me a while to warm to the ’20s costumes on ‘Downton.’ I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, ‘We’re equal to men!’
I don’t really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch ‘Adventure Time’, ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’, and ‘Looney Tunes’ and old classic cartoons.
I’ve got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that’s the song that nobody talks about. It’s weird.
If our lives are out of tune with the music of the gospel, we must tune them up.
Reality whistles a different tune underwater.
With Del Shannon – and I’ve got to tell you this – there’s nobody probably on the face of the earth that I identified more with musically. We used to sit and sing George Jones and Hank Williams tunes.
To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of God.
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.
I like minor tunes.
When times are good, we have tunes to dance to; when times are tough, we’re supposed to talk about it. That’s country music.
Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys, or between major and minor.
The best way to use the auto-tune is not to! And that’s what I do: I do not use auto-tune!
I’ve seen people who don’t have deals get features from people that labels can’t even get features from, because you gotta show face and be in-tune with these guys who still have that independent mind set as far how you hustle yourself. Because they only really care at the end of the day about the dollas.
I think that that spirit, or at least the raucousness of maybe that, is in there. And then yeah, like, along the way, you fine tune it ’cause you’re thinking, like, OK, we need to now turn this into a song.
It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.
Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.
An actor is like an instrument, tune them, play them the right way.
Close to the Edge by Yes. Such a fun tune to play on bass.
All forms are complex once you get to a really high level, and jazz and hip-hop are so connected. In hip-hop, you sample, while in jazz, you take Broadway tunes and turn them into something different. They’re both forms that repurpose other forms of music.
Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an “independent” agency operated by selfless public servants striving to “fine-tune” the economy through monetary policy. In reality, however, a non-political governmental institution is as likely as a barking cat.
Don’t need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
I want to be a compassionate soul, finding worth and beauty in the worlds around me and within me, attempting to sing a transcendent tune with my temporal position in this life.
I’m in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I’m in the process of working.
I mean, people have created great shows, produced wonderful television, and nobody tunes in. For whatever reason, it just doesn’t resonate with the masses. And vice versa, people have produced some really crappy television and mediocre stuff, and for some reason it hits. And there’s no rhyme or reason.
When a man refuses to take money from those who give money to politicians, you don’t pay the piper and sit back and let somebody else call the tune.
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.
Usually if someone starts making universal claims, I tune right on out.
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
With more people, there are more voices to tune out.
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons.
A lot of times we associate Greenpeace and climate change and shrinking polar caps with heavy-handed, weighty material. It’s somber stuff. But with Funny Or Die we thought we could put an interesting take on it. Make it a little more palatable, especially for young people who tune into the website.
We’re used to the characteristics of social media – participation, connection, instant gratification – and when school doesn’t offer the same, it’s easy to tune out.
Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.
I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he’d be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.
I’m always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that’s why I’m so slow.
Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.
Tune into your own capacities and always make time for sleep
You can be Mitt Romney with three marriages and a disastrous speakership, kicked out of the speakership, being reprimanded by the House of Representatives and fined and all that stuff, it doesn`t matter if you sing the right tune with the right tone these days.
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.
I’m not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It’s all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.
When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.
Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.
People have to realise you don’t help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago.
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.
I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios – that was really cool. I kept singing the ‘Looney Tunes’ theme song all day. I’m sure they haven‘t heard that one before.
Feed the musician, and he’s out of tune.
I have a weekly playlist on Spotify called Mixtape Mondays. So every Sunday night, I sit around listening to tunes to place. It’s becoming my favorite part of the week.
Led Zeppelin didn’t write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees.
To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
I might not be able to hold my drink or my man, but what I can hold, is a tune. Point me in the right direction and give me a bloody mic.
Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing – the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music – if it’s a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it!
I love the show tunes; I love all of them.
Every heart has a divine intelligence and natural guidance system. With every prayer, every meditation and every thought of love, we tune in to ours.
It’s totally freeing when I stay in tune with scripture. I don’t have to worry if I miss a dive. I go into competition and it’s like, “Praise God no matter what.”
He who pays the piper can call the tunes.
You know when you play in the big away games that the fans are going to be behind their team and will be booing you. As a professional you need to tune yourself out of that part of the game and concentrate on the job at hand.
I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I’ve sung a lot of different things.
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 mind.
Meditation is nothing but putting the mind aside, putting the mind out of the way, and bringing a witnessing which is always there but hidden underneath the mind. This witnessing will reach to your center, and once you have become enlightened, then there is no problem. Then bring the mind in tune with you
Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then.
While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.
I have two children and it’s amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.
I try not to talk during the day when I have a show that night. My voice is my instrument, just like a saxophonist’s instrument is his saxophone, plus also his voice, if he’s the one between tunes that makes announcements.
When you have a heartfelt belly laugh, all parts of your being – the physiological, the pyschological, the spiritual – they all vibrate in one single tune. They all vibrate in harmony!
The words are the important thing. Don’t worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you’ve got a new tune.
I gazed upon the glorious sky
And the green mountains round,
And thought that when I came to lie
At rest within the ground,
‘Twere pleasant, that in flowery June
When brooks send up a cheerful tune,
And groves a joyous sound,
The sexton’s hand, my grave to make,
The rich, green mountain-turf should break.
And the green mountains round,
And thought that when I came to lie
At rest within the ground,
‘Twere pleasant, that in flowery June
When brooks send up a cheerful tune,
And groves a joyous sound,
The sexton’s hand, my grave to make,
The rich, green mountain-turf should break.
I don’t want any of my records to sound like one style throughout. That’s why I choose different grooves and songs: tunes that are sensitive and slow as well as pieces that are abstract and fast. The approach I want to take with my records is to give the listener a variety of grooves, concepts, and composers.
I get to hang out with Billy Bob Thornton at his house. We hang out over there every time we’re in L.A., because he doesn’t go out. We’ll hang and he’ll play us some of his tunes. It’s pretty awesome.
I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
In the phusical sense, ‘playing a fret less instrument in tune’ is an impossibility. Hence what we call ‘playing in tune’ is no more than an extremely rapid skilfully carried out improvement of the originally inexactly located pitch.
The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.
One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.
I’ve never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.
There is no late-night comedy. You watch comedy, you watch whenever you want to tune on. You can it in the middle of the night. You can it in the morning. It’s all comedy. They just label it late-night comedy so they don’t have to pay as much.
Yet the companions of the Muses
will keep their collective nose in my books
And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
will keep their collective nose in my books
And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
It took me 20 years to learn I couldn’t tune too well. В And by that time I was too rich to care.
Once we’re inside a tune, we can do anything with it.
We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas–stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the “story” part of the word “history,” and we love it trimmed out with color and drama, ribbons and bows. Listen to our tunes, observe a Celtic scroll: we always decorate our essence.
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.
I’m not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.
If you’re behind the times, they won’t notice you. If you’re right in tune with them, you’re no better than they are, so they won’t care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them.
I have always been a night person. When the sun goes down, my spirits rise. I’m more alert, quicker, more in tune with the rhythms of the world.
I’m grateful for the people who watch everyday because if the viewers don’t tune in, I don’t have a job and I know that.
When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.
I’m bad at a ton of things. I’m bad at sitting still. I’m bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It’s rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they’re like “Where are you right now?”
Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward the manifested realms of creation, the mind misses or fails to appreciate its own essential nature, just as the eyes are unable to see themselves.
You’re not getting the b-level tunes. Our most recent producer, Danger Mouse, was quite sure about that. So you’re getting the best of the best, the cream of the cream of what we have to offer.
My mother Naseem Bano who was called the first ‘Pari Chehra’ or beauty queen of the film industry, had taken me to London after she saw me taking fancy to her ghaghra, lipstick and dance to the tunes of her film songs. For her, academics were more important than films.
I think that actors are terrible communicators as people by and large. I think our tendency is to kind of be self-centered and tune people out and just kind of get really me-focused, so I think communication for actors is a big challenge actually.
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.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
I have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I’ll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing.
I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has left an instrument it becomes its own master, a free and independent creature of sound, weightless, incorporeal and perfectly in tune with the universe.
Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don’t clutter yourself.
And I’m moved, it’s so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember the words and the tune. To hear it in her voice.
Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.
Change ain’t looking for friends. Change calls the tune we all dance to.
Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything
Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it’s composition. If you don’t understand what it’s about, you’re depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.
Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one’s being.
Precious few are those who can live in the lap of luxury … who can keep their moral, spiritual and financial equilibrium … while balancing on the elevated tightrope of success. … there is about one in a hundred who can dance to the tune of success without paying the piper named Compromise.
There’s a lot of stuff you’ve gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, because it’s the hot thing to do.
I can remember hearing the theme tune to Dallas when I was supposed to be in bed. I would sneak down and try to watch it through the banisters. My mum loved that show.
I have done a fair bit of meditation practice, but I think through climbing it’s definitely an easier way for me to tap into that mental state of being present and in the moment, very in tune with your body. But not in an intellectual way. Just really responding to the moment, where you don’t have time to think.
Buddy Holly was the geekiest looking guy in the world, but he had some really rockin tunes.
There are a million good tunes.
I think ultimately that’s why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.
THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace in our own realms, nurture life, and prevent death and destruction. The true meaning of the term samurai is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.
I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity for a lot more. I joined a band and so on. We would do concerts at school, and I would play cover tunes and thought, ‘This is really great.’
At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath.
Once we tune in to what we feel in our heart and Spirit, our intuition kicks into gear and starts to communicate with us in so many delightful ways.
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
Consciously or subconsciously, we become slaves to debt and social obligation. As a result, we end up more committed to the minutia and less in tune with the bigger picture: our deepest sense of purpose.
Since art exists for humanity it is not unreasonable to assume that humanity has some rights in the matter. Who pays the piper calls the tune. An artist cannot be at once a rebel and a comfortable citizen.
I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.
[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don’t think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.
The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don’t actually ‘enjoy’ listening to it.
Don’t try to fine-tune somebody else’s view.
Frankly I don’t listen to lyrics (a problem in that I apparently work in musical theatre) I just want a good tune that doesn’t require the use of too much grey matter.
The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.
Part of Krishna consciousness is trying to tune in all the senses of all the people: to experience God through all the senses, not just by experiencing Him on Sunday, through your knees by kneeling on some hard wooden kneeler in the church.
When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.
I know this guy is a musician so I hope he can play us a tune that could get us the hell out of here.
I’m regarded outside New York University as a looney tunes leftie, self-hating Jewish communist; inside the university, I’m regarded as a typical, old-fashioned, white male liberal elitist. I like that. I’m on the edge of both; it makes me feel comfortable.
The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it.
It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.
I’m very physical. It’s an important part of being a woman – feeling good about yourself and really being in tune with your personality.
A person understands other’s language only in tune with his attitude with most people all the time, so it’s wise to act nice with individuals only in proportion with the truth cherished in their lives.
Excellence, to me, is the state of grace that can descend only when one tunes out all the world‘s clamor, listens to an inward voice one recognizes as wiser than one’s own, and transcribes without fear.
In fact, I love singing. I just have a small problem with pitch, tune, melody, and lyrics. But that’s never stopped me.
Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.
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.
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own.
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!
You either have it or you don’t. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it’s in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea…the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.
I would get records by Earl Scruggs… I would tune my banjo down and I’d pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking… And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.
There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.
It seems to me as a woman’s face doesna want flowers; it’s almost like a flower itself…. It’s like when a man’s singing a good tune, you don’t want t’ hear bells tinkling and interfering wi’ the sound.
The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.
The truth is, the family is much more creatively nourishing because you’re playing on a full keyboard. Whereas when you’re single, you’re just playing the upbeat jazzy tunes.
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
But every job I’ve had I just end up writing tunes and skiving – so everything has been leading up to it, but I’ve never had any ambition of getting big.
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.
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.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
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.
Some of the kids who discovered me from my ‘F.E.A.R.’ record or one of the U.N.K.L.E. tunes have said, ‘I don’t even like the Roses; I love your solo stuff.’ I buzz off that.
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy.
Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills… Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.
Turn on, tune up, rock out.
The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.
If students don’t think that you care and can relate, especially as they get older, they tune you out. I didn’t get it in my classes at the graduate school of education. I got it intuitively from my own experiences as a student.
I’m pretty in tune with everything that happens on the PGA TOUR. Jordan Spieth is my guy. I love watching him play.
Riders called me up afterwards to say that they had had no other choice. I couldn’t understand the way they changed their tune.
the title of Queen rang sweet to my ears, child though I was. … This idea of a crown began running in my head then like a tune, and has been running a lot in it ever since.
Beyond being Jewish, I’ve always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality.
I play any piano with a good tune.
When the second album came out, everybody gravitated immediately to the three and a half minute rock tunes and ignored the ballads. They thought all the Raspberries were was players of high-energy rock songs.
If you had to call it “unison“, it ain’t unison. It ain’t the same as somebody else. If you can hear that it’s unison, and you have to name it something other than “unison”, it ain’t unison, you know what I mean? It’s two guys playin’, but one guy is playin’ slightly out of tune, one is playin’ slightly off meter.
Miracles and angels are a part of our lives, so anticipateВ them and tune in through your quiet mind.
Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.
The lips know only shallow tunes
What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time.
It always sounds more right to me when it’s detuned. When it’s right in tune, it’s like there’s something slightly off. But at the end of the day, it’s all about frequencies and what they do to you. That’s the real core.
The only thing that makes sense to me that I’ve learnt over the years is knocking tunes together.
All musical talent is absent in me, to the point of being unable to play board games that require you to hum a tune while others guess what it is, since all my humming sounds the same. Musical instruments have always seemed like alien artifacts to me, even as I really admire anyone who can play one.
I taught myself to tune in to another persons wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.
Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.
Tunes have notes and tempos and rules. If the tune is “All the Things You Are,” you have to adhere to its structure and to the tradition behind that structure.
You need to tune your instrument, which is your body and your mind, and your soul.
I don’t think I’m turning back the clock by doing these old tunes. I love rock and roll and popular music. It’s just that the spirits of the singers whose songs I do are living within me. That’s why the songs come out in the voices of the original singers. I’m not doing imitations. That’s the way they sound inside me.
In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else
I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I’m filled with music, As choirs of summer birds, I cannot sing the old songs– I do not know the words.
Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count, voices that are going to add too little worth to your future. Don’t waste time on the shallow and the silly. Tune those voices out and tune in voices that are going to add something to your life
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.
That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I’ll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.
I’ve done a couple of tunes with Kaytranada. ‘Got It Good’ has had such a great response.
I have a lot of dignity and am my own woman who does not dance to anyone’s tunes.
Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren’t partyin’.
I just love feeling myself, and moving, flexing, jumping, expressing, dancing and doing movement. I’m in tune with it. I like to express myself with my body, more so than intellectually. But, I am a geek.
I love that moment when I feel a connection to another person, however brief or insignificant. I am always inspired by anything created by someone trying to overcome great obstacles. Good tunes never hurt, either.
I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, ‘Come and take my photograph.’ So I do, regardless of how I feel.
I’ve learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I’ve ever done. You can tune me out, you can click me off, it’s OK. I am not going to bow to political correctness.
Hearing ‘This Is How It Feels’ on the radio was an amazing feeling, like starting again. But I believe that, in the end, my name will be bigger then the Verve because of all those great tunes and the power of what I stand for.
In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
Instead of thinking that’s a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.
Hymn tunes are the nearest we’ve got to English folk music.
Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.
I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage. Sympathy and compassion should be but natural to the human heart.
I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I’m the only Irish person who can’t carry a tune.
When thoughts are reduced, power of the mind and its subtlety increases, tunes with the Universe. Then you can see the realms beyond the common understanding. When the mind is pure and quiet it becomes one with the universal mind. That mind is like a mirror. The secrets of the Universe will be revealed there.
I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.
When I’d hear something that sounded like I could follow it – most of those big band jazz tunes are blues anyway – I would hum it and play with the fiddle while I was humming.
The Indian audience is so passionate, they know all the tunes and love to party. The atmosphere is always electric.
It’s always fun to be able to have a voice, because it helps me to stay in tune with the project and the people that I am working with. Ther’s nothing worse than being on a project and not being able to have a voice. I don’t like that.
In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship – that era’s predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes and an all-star cast.
But the tune ends too soon for us all
The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
Music is nostalgia. We often connect to a song, to its lyrics, its tunes so much that it feels like we have known those songs all along.
The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.
You know, I’m fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.
I was certain that some people, whether by accident of birth or some pecularity of training, could tune in to another source of information and could know things about people we didn’t think were possible to know.
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.
My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That’s what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it’s real, it comes from me.
People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
And let them pass, as they will too soon,
With the bean-flowers’ boon,
And the blackbird’s tune,
And May, and June!
With the bean-flowers’ boon,
And the blackbird’s tune,
And May, and June!
For me what we need is a great deal of fiscal stimulus to show the UK is open for business. We need to upskill our workforce. I’m very much in tune with the work our chancellor is doing.
Whenever I have a bunch of tunes written, I always find a kind of uniform that accompanies the songs.
Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.
A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down my hair, took apart my psyche, cleaned the pieces, and put them together again in much improved condition. I feel like a car that’s just had a tune-up. Only another woman could have acted as the mechanic.
If we had about 100 years, that sort of slow cultural conversion would be exactly the thing to do. But physics is calling the tune here. We’ve got to respond to a timetable that physics has set for us.
I hate how all the hip hop bands of today will put crazy sound effects into their songs. You know what I mean, like a police or ambulance siren in a tune? Because I could own the CD, I could listen to it 50 gamillion times in my car – I still fall for it every time.
You don’t seem to have guts. There is no need to surrender to each other. Surrender to love means: enjoy in the happiness of the other, rejoice in the being of the other; be in tune with each other, dance in harmony.
I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that’s really me. The real me is something else.
I dont really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Looney Tunes and old classic cartoons.
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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.
Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You’ve got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn’t cluttered with them. That way, you’re better able to pick up a few sensible things to do.
People don’t tune in to watch network executives‘ decisions. They don’t tune in to watch writers‘ decisions. They tune in to watch people that they like.
We tune because you care.
Kids love Lady Gaga because she’s a freak, and she’s one of the few people doing that, but unfortunately, Lady Gaga hasn’t got the tunes. She’s not David Bowie or Roxy Music.
I am very unmusical. I can’t carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.
La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe”В leВ В oВ u’ nous battons des meВ lodies a’В В faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les eВ toiles. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.
I’m spiritual! You know what spiritual means! Me and God has a good relationship. I’m in tune with the universe, the sun, moon, and stars. I’m in tune with the jinns that are all around us.
