Top 100 Tune Quotes
#1. Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away in the tune that you're moving to. It's a marvelous catharsis, to be able to get on top and tap dance.
Donald O'Connor
#2. Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward the manifested realms of creation, the mind misses or fails to appreciate its own essential nature, just as the eyes are unable to see themselves.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#3. When you have two notes from two different performances Auto-Tuned, it sounds like a car horn. And then you add harmonies, and it starts to sound like baby seals honking. - Tom Lord-Alge on Auto-Tune
Greg Milner
#4. 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.
Ruggiero Ricci
#5. Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there.
Louis Armstrong
#7. Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.
Keith Jarrett
#8. Right after something happens to me, the first thing I'll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh. I'll hum a tune into my phone sometimes.
Troye Sivan
#9. [S]ongs must be measured by their utility. Any jaunty little tune that can get you from one point to another as you drive, or get you through the dishes, or that can illuminate or dignify your courting, I always appreciate.
-interview, 1995
Leonard Cohen
#10. We can quiet our minds enough to tune in to what our bodies are telling us - I believe in angels - and we need to listen to the messages being sent. They are real messages - just as real as a human saying something to you.
Zoe McLellan
#11. True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.
Bruce Lee
#12. I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most. I think that's something we can find in any person, though some people are more in tune with it or accepting of it or have moved past it and dealt with it or have a healthier thought process about it than others.
Kristen Stewart
#13. The on and off thing is kind of annoying, isn't it? First with Cole, now with Gavin. "Maybe you need a tune up." I rolled my eyes. "I'll just pop into the supernatural ability repair shop sometime tomorrow." He grinned, his fingers tracing the line of my jaw.
Gena Showalter
#14. I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.
Jim Butcher
#15. Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.
Ken Robinson
#16. Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.
Robert Hunter
#17. Life isn't filled with perfect harmony. The world is littered with bum notes, off-key moments and tuneless episodes. The trick is to find your own music, to ignore the discord and sing your own tune.
Annie Lyons
#18. When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.
Marcus Aurelius
#19. I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#20. Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills ... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.
William O. Douglas
#21. My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.
Mercedes McCambridge
#22. I guess that all figures into my approach because once I start hearing the imagination land stuff (that's my new phrase now I guess) I tend to tune out or start laughing at it like, "Haha, you guys really believe there is a heaven."
Brad Warner
#24. Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#25. 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.
Jerri Nielsen
#26. I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.
Amanda Donohoe
#27. This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams [author's introduction]
Miles Franklin
#28. A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it.
Ma Rainey
#29. When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to 'achieve' or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#30. I like to work with people who have a sense of putting a song over, and can sing in tune, and with passion. With technology you can polish a turd, but there's still no button you can press for passion.
Tony Visconti
#31. It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'
Lily James
#32. All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard.
George Shearing
#33. When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.
Marcus Aurelius
#34. It's totally freeing when I stay in tune with scripture. I don't have to worry if I miss a dive. I go into competition and it's like, "Praise God no matter what."
David Boudia
#36. I was certain that some people, whether by accident of birth or some pecularity of training, could tune in to another source of information and could know things about people we didn't think were possible to know.
Michael Crichton
#37. A bird half wakened in the lunar noon
Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
Robert Frost
#38. I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else.
David Boreanaz
#39. I've had albums out since the 1970s. I was in a musical, 'The Boy Friend,' directed by Ken Russell, and I was on Broadway in 'My One And Only' with Tommy Tune, so I've always been a singer, but I suppose people think of my modelling more.
Twiggy
#40. The key is to silence the mind long enough to tune into the intuition of the heart.
Steven Redhead
#41. I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver
#42. To see her is a picture-
To hear her is a tune-
To know her an Intemperance
As innocent as June-
To know her not-Affliction-
To own her for a Friend
A warmth as near as if the the Sun
Were shining in your Hand.
Emily Dickinson
#43. Close your eyes. You might try saying ... something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!
Dale Carnegie
#44. It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
Larry Wall
#45. The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to the cosmos.
Leonard Sweet
#46. Stone was fond of the sound bullets made. She was born in war, and lulled by a tune burrowed into her brain that she knew so well.
R.R. Washburn
#47. People don't have to go to cable news or network news. Live sports is the one of many things that's kind of community television. There are a lot of people who still tune in to "Sunday Night Football" or "Thursday Night Football" the way they did before.
Henry Blodget
#48. The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.
Brittany Howard
#49. I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.
Wolfman Jack
#50. A madman is not less a musician than you or myself; only the instrument on which he plays is a little out of tune.
Kahlil Gibran
#51. Mellow is how I feel right now. I feel in perfect tune with the world right now.
Allan Dare Pearce
#52. 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
#53. There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.
Damien Chazelle
#54. I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes.
C.S. Lewis
#55. (reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune
'Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?'
(pause)
'No. Magic possesses them'.
Tommy Tune
#56. I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
Jackson Browne
#57. Some people can carry a tune, but they seem to stagger under the load.
Richard Armour
#59. He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.
Marie De France
#60. The jukebox played some hillbilly tune; steel guitar and emotion-choked moaning ...
Philip K. Dick
#61. My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.
Liberace
#62. She's sweet on Wagner.
I think she'd die for Beethoven.
she loves the way Puccini lays down a tune,
and Verdi's always creeping from her room.
Electric Light Orchestra
#63. I sat on the floor behind him, putting my legs on either side of his hips so that my calves were over the edge, and I rested my cheek on his bare back. He continued to play and I recognized the tune. Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones.
D.D. Prince
#64. I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness ... whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim.
Themistocles
#65. God is sending forth His message of love, but you must tune in. You must be willing to listen and to receive His message and then to obey it.
Billy Graham
#66. As marriage was woman's business, unmarried women, though doubtless unfortunate, must simply be considered as business failures: harsh, doubtless, but in tune with the sink-or-swim capitalist times.
Ruth Brandon
#67. My friends adore 'TOWIE' - the TV documentary series, 'The Only Way is Essex.' They like it, I'm afraid, for the most unworthy of reasons: class mockery. They tune in to wonder in a 'can you believe those people?' way at the natives of Brentwood and Buckhurst Hill.
Peter York
#68. This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars ... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.
Solomon Ortiz
#69. Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
Calvin Harris
#70. You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal; you tune in different frequencies.
Chris Prentiss
#71. A person must be in tune with the light and dark forces of their nature and remain in harmony with the bands of their own multivariate being.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#72. I don't have to have talent. I just need to have auto-tune and be allowed to have the hottest track in the game, and my swag.
Spencer Pratt
#73. Understanding the three sets of goals, and establishing organizational policies and practices that are in tune with them, is the key to high workforce morale and firm performance. There is no conflict between the goals of most workers
David Sirota
#74. Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#75. You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
James Agee
#76. Here's what I know: I eat mass quantities of red meat, curse religiously, sing out of tune but with conviction. I cry when it suits me, laugh when it's inopportune, read The New York Times obituaries and wedding announcements, out loud and in that order.
Julie Buxbaum
#77. Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
#78. All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.
Charles Ives
#79. As you work toward your goals today, tune into your underlying motivations and ask yourself: Am I focusing all my energy on a happy tomorrow to the detriment of today?
Lori Deschene
#80. Actually, Da Vinci was in tune with the balance between male and female. He believed that a human soul could not be enlightened unless it had both male and female elements.
Dan Brown
#81. Ty Grady was a rude, insufferable, egotistical, stinking son of a bitch, and Zane was going to figure out how to tune him out. Otherwise, he just might give in to the pressure and kill the bastard, for the good of humanity.
Abigail Roux
#82. Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an "independent" agency operated by selfless public servants striving to "fine-tune" the economy through monetary policy. In reality, however, a non-political governmental institution is as likely as a barking cat.
Thomas DiLorenzo
#83. If men could become pregnant - or be legally raped, or understand the unsubtle differences between 'yes' and 'no', i am certain you would soon see them change their tune about abortion and the treatment and trivialization of the suffering of rape victims.
Christina Engela
#84. If you don't have an album or you don't have any tune, you can't start.
Jeff Beck
#85. Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn't cluttered with them. That way, you're better able to pick up a few sensible things to do.
Charlie Munger
#86. I prefer to be in tune with my surroundings and to be aware of things. I like listening to my foot strike and my breathing. It can be quite soothing.
Paula Radcliffe
#87. To write a book is for all the world like humming a song - be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.
Laurence Sterne
#88. The show tune I can never get out of my head is 'Oh, What A Beautiful Morning' from 'Oklahoma!' I don't know why.
Megan Hilty
#89. The unfortunate reality is we are probably missing your work. Not because it's not good, but because we've learned to tune it out.
Jeff Goins
#90. Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn't about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It's about making people believe in the story you're telling.
Marc Almond
#91. I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.
William S. Burroughs
#92. When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness.
Everything in the universe belongs to me.
Dick Gregory
#93. In fact, I love singing. I just have a small problem with pitch, tune, melody, and lyrics. But that's never stopped me.
Kevin Daniels
#94. When I found out that I could carry a tune, well, I came to realize that I had a gift, that it was a kind of a blessing. And I think if you're given something special, you ought to try and give that something back. If you don't, it's a sin. No question.
Howard Keel
#95. Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.
Michael J. Gelb
#96. If our lives are out of tune with the music of the gospel, we must tune them up.
Wilford W. Andersen
#97. The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang.
Jamaica Kincaid
#98. The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
Garik Israelian
#99. I was a barmaid for my mum for years, as we lived above a pub. I still can't hear the Heartbeat theme tune without breaking into a cold sweat, as it used to start at the same time as my shift.
Sara Cox
#100. My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.
Kailash Kher
