Tunes Quotes - Page 18

Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.

I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat

In fact, I love singing. I just have a small problem with pitch, tune, melody, and lyrics. But that's never stopped me.

Know who you are and possess that confidence and just tune out the naysayers and the critics in a way where you feel like you possess a certain patience and perspective that many of us in the bubble lack.

I love the show tunes; I love all of them.

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!

Blue grass was the outgrowth of Irish music. As a matter of fact a lot the tunes, a lot of the melodies and the jigs... have different names but are actually the same tunes.

What I do and where I come from, the kind of music that I'm making, it's definitely U.K. If I turned around and did a tune with Timbaland, it would be amazing, but it would be me kind of leaving where I'm coming from.

What I love about film scoring is that all the answers are in the story. You just need to get in tune with the story and realize it musically.

At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn section or a tightly arranged little big band if need be, but it could also switch back into the polyphonic glories of vintage New Orleans jazz, in which nearly every instrument seems to improvise around the tune at the same time.

Bill Charlap and I recorded a tune that Jack [Montrose] wrote and had brought to a date with Bob that was untitled. Bob [Gordon] really loved it and asked if he would mind if they dedicated it to Sue and call it "For Sue."

The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

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.

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.

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.

Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.

It was apparent that many of the speeds used in the estimates were too large. The scale guiding wind speeds wasn't in tune with reality.

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.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

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.

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.

Whenever I have a bunch of tunes written, I always find a kind of uniform that accompanies the songs.

I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

The authors of all our misfortune.

Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.