Tune Quotes - page 4

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. (Dexter Gordon)
Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. View quote
Dimebag Darrell
That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone. View quote
Erik Paulsen
Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy through your body. Coming back to your center, and approaching life from that center-to-line place... That to me gave me strength and understanding and hopefully wisdom to solve life's problems and challenges. View quote
Erin Gray
Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot. View quote
Gotye
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. View quote
Gary Hamel
I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers. View quote
Ian McLagan
My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on 'Boardwalk,' because I've done it for so long and I'm so in tune with the character, she says I'm pretty happy most of the time. View quote
Jack Huston
When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life. View quote
Jesse Harris
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. View quote
Kim Smith
We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice. (Kip Winger)
Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it. View quote
Keith Jarrett
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. View quote
Keith Thibodeaux
It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes. View quote
Leo Kottke
Drums usually seem to tune themselves. View quote
Levon Helm
Sound is the first thing that we tune into. View quote
Lee Konitz
That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it. View quote
Marian McPartland
My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe. View quote
Mercedes McCambridge
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. View quote
Nik Kershaw
I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life. View quote
Pamela Sue Martin
Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin. (Patrice Leconte)
I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry. View quote
Robert Wyatt
I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question. View quote
Robert Wyatt
Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients. View quote
Ron Ben-Israel
Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things. View quote
Ruggiero Ricci