Tunes Quotes - Page 11

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.

You just have to work really hard to tune out the noise and the static. Because it gets louder, and people really have an opinion, and you don't want to shy away from taking chances for fear of what people will say, or living in the wreckage of the future [of] what may be if I do this.

No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)

If you don't have an album or you don't have any tune, you can't start.

Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

Every war is a national misfortune.

Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music.

The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.

I think we're tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series after seeing the movie they might be disappointed. That there was, you know, that they might have some kind of adverse reaction.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

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.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

You can get the highest quality sleep by keeping your sleep cycles in tune with the rhythms of the universe (known as circadian rhythms).

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.