Tunes Quotes - Page 5

Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.

This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.

The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely.

What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!

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.

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.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

A soul living in tune with its internal purpose is bound to create utter magic.

Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it.

Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

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.

To execute a vision, good or bad, you've got to tune out the noise.

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.

Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren't partyin'.

Keep your misfortunes to yourself.

An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West.

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.

By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]