Tunes Quotes - Page 7

When you dance with the devil, you don't get to pick the tune.

Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.

Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to.

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice at all, he might truly have been said to have done so instinctively.

You'll change your tune quickly enough when some banshee's sucking your soul out through your pupils.

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

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.

As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.

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.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer.

We all have music in us - your heartbeat is your drum, your voice is your sound - and music is supposed to put you in tune with nature.

For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

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

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

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.