Top 100 Tune Quotes

#1. I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.

Kiefer Sutherland

Tune Quotes #1812
#2. Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all the barriers .. thoughts, emotions, sentiments .. which criteria wall between you and existence. The moment they drop, you suddenly find yourself in tune with the whole; not only in tune, you really find you are the whole.

Rajneesh

Tune Quotes #2158
#3. What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time.

Paul Walker

Tune Quotes #3165
#4. By being silent he can do more than those who chatter. For he is in tune with the commandments as a harp is with its strings.

Cyril Charles Richardson

Tune Quotes #3584
#5. I think that that spirit, or at least the raucousness of maybe that, is in there. And then yeah, like, along the way, you fine tune it 'cause you're thinking, like, OK, we need to now turn this into a song.

Mark Ronson

Tune Quotes #5393
#6. We listen to songs to figure them out, to unravel the mystery of the words and the tune.

David Levithan

Tune Quotes #5938
#7. I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

Jennifer Weiner

Tune Quotes #7508
#8. Tune in to Kids and Family Week is perfect for me.

Melissa Joan Hart

Tune Quotes #8540
#9. O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.

William Blake

Tune Quotes #10367
#10. Just as political correctness finds its most avid supporters on today's university campuses, the intellectuals of earlier times generally went along with the religious establishment. He who pays the piper calls the tune.

David P. Clark

Tune Quotes #12063
#11. Had music not delivered Richard, too, on more than one occasion, from a life he'd believed himself trapped in? The tempos had changed, but that almost didn't matter. The point, now as then, was to tune in to something bigger than yourself, and to feel around you others who felt as you did.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Tune Quotes #16498
#12. The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa.

Bernard Law Montgomery

Tune Quotes #16667
#13. I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

Aneurin Bevan

Tune Quotes #17886
#14. I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself ... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

Jessye Norman

Tune Quotes #19568
#15. Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours; you would have friends less one.

Vikrmn

Tune Quotes #19651
#16. What geomancy reads what the windblown sand writes on the desert rock? I read there that all things live by a generous power and dance to a mighty tune; or I read there all things are scattered and hurled, that our every arabesque and grand jete is a frantic variation on our one free fall.

Annie Dillard

Tune Quotes #21664
#17. There is no late-night comedy. You watch comedy, you watch whenever you want to tune on. You can it in the middle of the night. You can it in the morning. It's all comedy. They just label it late-night comedy so they don't have to pay as much.

George Schlatter

Tune Quotes #22305
#18. After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tune Quotes #22610
#19. Let the sky rain potatoes," said a musing voice. "Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves.

Cassandra Clare

Tune Quotes #22721
#20. Then, the door opens and there he is; silhouetted in the hall light. Long hair, long legs, and a heartbeat in tune with my own.

Hunter S. Jones

Tune Quotes #23766
#21. The kirtana of Madhava has an almost magnetic influence. The mind and heart get totally attracted, then drawn into the inside world where one can meet the soul of the universe. Tune in and you will have a deeply rewarding, spiritual experience.

Sacinandana Swami

Tune Quotes #24885
#22. My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.

Heber J. Grant

Tune Quotes #25239
#23. Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

Criss Jami

Tune Quotes #27089
#24. Life took longer to reassemble than it did to blow apart, but that didn't mean it wouldn't be lovely, providing that one remembered to go for country walks, and to tune the wireless to music.

Chris Cleave

Tune Quotes #28475
#25. You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.

Douglas Adams

Tune Quotes #31161
#26. Remember that the devil is the one who tells you to play a tune that's not your own, and you can drive him right on out into the cold by playing what's in your soul.

Jennifer Mason-Black

Tune Quotes #31254
#27. Your mind should be in harmony with the functioning of the universe; your body should be in tune with the movement of the universe; body and mind should be bound as one, unified with the activity of the universe.

Morihei Ueshiba

Tune Quotes #32207
#28. The clouds are scudding across the moon,
A misty light is on the sea;
The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune,
And the foam is flying free.

Bayard Taylor

Tune Quotes #36748
#29. In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.

John Eaton

Tune Quotes #42270
#30. It's always fun to be able to have a voice, because it helps me to stay in tune with the project and the people that I am working with. Ther's nothing worse than being on a project and not being able to have a voice. I don't like that.

Martin Lawrence

Tune Quotes #45462
#31. But O, sick children of the world,
Of all the many changing things
In dreary dancing past us whirled,
To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,
Words alone are certain good.

William Butler Yeats

Tune Quotes #48539
#32. Certain people can keep a word tune, so to speak, and certain people cannot. And, above all, certain people can tell a story, and other people can't. They don't hear that point where something else has to come.

James Salter

Tune Quotes #50724
#33. Gulls, aeroplaning above the chimney pots, were calling that he must talk to Laura about his plans. He needed no telling, for once in tune to their outlandish cries.

Alan Sillitoe

Tune Quotes #53061
#34. 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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Tune Quotes #53949
#35. Do you recall that night in June
Upon the Danube River;
We listened to the landler-tune,
We watched the moonbeams quiver.

Charles Hamilton Aide

Tune Quotes #54500
#36. 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.

Randy Weston

Tune Quotes #54805
#37. This tune goes manly.
Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready;
Our lack is nothing but our leave. Macbeth
Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above
Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may.
The night is long that never finds the day.
They exit.

William Shakespeare

Tune Quotes #57546
#38. Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it.

Debasish Mridha

Tune Quotes #63670
#39. An actor is like an instrument, tune them, play them the right way.

Ricky Schroder

Tune Quotes #63679
#40. I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet to me like the sudden springing of a tune, And the sight of a white church above thin trees in a city square Amazes my eyes as though it were the Parthenon.

Amy Lowell

Tune Quotes #67569
#41. I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.

Ringo Starr

Tune Quotes #71986
#42. People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

Alice Oswald

Tune Quotes #75795
#43. Mathematics has always shown a curious ability to be applicable to nature, and this may express a deep link between our minds and nature. We are the Universe speaking out, a part of nature. So it is not so surprising that our systems of logic and mathematics sing in tune with nature.

George Zebrowski

Tune Quotes #79375
#44. Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

Ethel Merman

Tune Quotes #80489
#45. In England, I suppose I have been known to once or twice tune into 'Big Brother', which is a pretty terrible guilty pleasure.

Freddie Stroma

Tune Quotes #85582
#46. I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers.

Kathleen Hanna

Tune Quotes #86354
#47. The main thing that I loved about living alone was the silence. Sometimes simply talking to people was like listening to white noise. Often I could tune the sound out and be all right, but other times it was like hearing nails on a chalkboard - almost painful.

Adrianne Brooks

Tune Quotes #86442
#48. I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.

Cameron Monaghan

Tune Quotes #86482
#49. It's so hard to pick a 'single.' I always want it to be whatever my favorite tune is, but often the record company and the person whose job it is to take it to radio have different ideas.

Alison Goldfrapp

Tune Quotes #92012
#50. We are all extraordinary individuals. We just have to once again tune into the special-ness of who we are.

Alice Hocker

Tune Quotes #94530
#51. When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.

Erin Gruwell

Tune Quotes #95489
#52. Running Makes you more spiritually aware and in tune with your inner-self.

Fauja Singh

Tune Quotes #95906
#53. It doesn't help to follow every rise and fall of your portfolio. It's better to tune out the day-to-day shifts, in fact. But getting a handle on the larger picture will make you feel more secure, and that goes a long way in calming your fear.

Jean Chatzky

Tune Quotes #99602
#54. You don't seem to have guts. There is no need to surrender to each other. Surrender to love means: enjoy in the happiness of the other, rejoice in the being of the other; be in tune with each other, dance in harmony.

Rajneesh

Tune Quotes #100404
#55. Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune.

Sarah Waters

Tune Quotes #104883
#56. The assholes took their toll." "Assholes often do." "That's a Billboard Top Forty song waiting to happen." "Sung to the tune of 'There'll Be Sad Songs,'" I suggested, then offered up a lyric. "'There'll be assholes, to make you cry.'" "'Assholes often dooo,'" Mallory sang.

Chloe Neill

Tune Quotes #105471
#57. Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive movements. Then when I least expected it, I happened upon the missing notes in the life of Charlotte Howe Taylor.

Sally Armstrong

Tune Quotes #106591
#58. Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.

Ron Fournier

Tune Quotes #106880
#59. I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.

A.R. Rahman

Tune Quotes #111193
#60. I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.

Rebecca Black

Tune Quotes #112666
#61. You have to be in tune with your body and know when your body is saying, 'That's enough, you're done for the day.' If you over-fatigue and are totally stressed, you get sick. And if I get sick, I can't work.

Sondra Radvanovsky

Tune Quotes #114149
#62. A lot of times we associate Greenpeace and climate change and shrinking polar caps with heavy-handed, weighty material. It's somber stuff. But with Funny Or Die we thought we could put an interesting take on it. Make it a little more palatable, especially for young people who tune into the website.

Alexander Skarsgard

Tune Quotes #115213
#63. I will quote Cioran (who is not yet a classic but will become one): "While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. 'What good will it do you,' they asked, 'to know this tune before you die?

Italo Calvino

Tune Quotes #117605
#64. Here is their plan. Whistle a happy tune while driving us off a fiscal cliff as long as they are behind the wheel of power when we fall.

Chris Christie

Tune Quotes #119375
#65. As we tune our ears to the kind of preaching that makes the primary point of the sermon the primary point of a particular passage of Scripture, we grow accustomed to listening to God.

Thabiti M. Anyabwile

Tune Quotes #121304
#66. Life goes on.. no matter you are happy or not.. no matter you want someone to be happy or not.

Vikrmn

Tune Quotes #121486
#67. It is the plight of man. And while the blame lies partly on the river " Lotus gestures towards the dark waters before us "most of the blame lies on man's inclination to tune into the noise that blares all around him instead of the beautiful silence that lies deep within.

Alyson Noel

Tune Quotes #121960
#68. Never ever let anyone take the charge of your Guitar called LIFE. Tune your Dreams, for you are the composer of the tracks of your life. Why do you wait? What are you scared of?

Vikrmn

Tune Quotes #123376
#69. I told myself I would never stop skating. I would never stop riding bikes or riding motorcycles. I raced dirt when I was a kid; motocross. So it definitely keeps me in tune with my youth. I'm almost 40 years old and I feel like I'm 17 years old, and I feel like that's really healthy.

Matt Skiba

Tune Quotes #124190
#70. 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.

Albert Camus

Tune Quotes #125828
#71. I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.

J.M. Coetzee

Tune Quotes #126084
#72. The dwarf has played her like a set of pipes, and she is too deaf to hear the tune.

George R R Martin

Tune Quotes #126684
#73. You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you.

Vikrmn

Tune Quotes #126700
#74. When I started making my own music, I was more about recreating what I was hearing. I noticed that I had some control over what I was saying, and the effects that it's going to have on people. I wanted to focus more on the positive side of things, which are more in tune with my morals and ethics.

Lupe Fiasco

Tune Quotes #126858
#75. Every tune I came to the end of a block and stepped off the goddam curb, I had this feeling that I'd never get to the other side of the street. I thought I'd just go down, down, down, and nobody'd ever see me again.

J.D. Salinger

Tune Quotes #128095
#76. When I'm writing, I generally toy with an idea until it manifests itself - meaning a phrase or a tune comes into my head and eventually begins to jell. When something hits me, I write it down immediately. I don't wait, or it's gone.

Paul Anka

Tune Quotes #129863
#77. If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why.

Corrine Brown

Tune Quotes #130162
#78. It always sounds more right to me when it's detuned. When it's right in tune, it's like there's something slightly off. But at the end of the day, it's all about frequencies and what they do to you. That's the real core.

Aphex Twin

Tune Quotes #135869
#79. I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

Hugh Jackman

Tune Quotes #139487
#80. Start living by taking back the control of your life now! Create a life more in tune with your true desires.

Steven Redhead

Tune Quotes #139847
#81. As a kid, on the cotton fields, I had this tune in my head. I hummed it and sang it. It was the same melody as 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' I could never, ever forget it.

Percy Sledge

Tune Quotes #140357
#82. The familiar (if loud) churn of the engine made it hard to talk, especially with the windows open (the air-conditioning didn't work), but the day was warm and they blasted the music and sang along. Nessa loved singing at full volume. She couldn't carry a tune, but with Bree it didn't matter.

C.D. Bell

Tune Quotes #149833
#83. When we open our hearts to the breadth of our experiences, we learn to tune into our needs, unique perceptions, thoughts & feelings

Sharon Salzberg

Tune Quotes #150695
#84. I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.

Tommy Tune

Tune Quotes #150832
#85. On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.

Walter Kirn

Tune Quotes #154063
#86. I don't really like the sound of Auto-Tune. I don't like when it's extremely audible, when you're able to detect it easily. I don't like that.

T.I.

Tune Quotes #154553
#87. Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

Billy Bragg

Tune Quotes #160226
#88. I just take a tune and play it the only way I can. That's it. I don't really dwell on it very much. Some people probably do. I can only say I play it the way I feel it.

Zoot Sims

Tune Quotes #160489
#89. Wow. Tough crowd." Ty hummed and looked down at his hands, beginning the tune to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Abigail Roux

Tune Quotes #160830
#90. Sport is increasingly played according to the tune, and rules, of those with the biggest bucks, whether their practices be legal or illegal.

Martin Jacques

Tune Quotes #161716
#91. The music on the radio is fine, it's just not my type of music. You don't play an instrument, and you don't need to be able to sing. You just need to be able to make a beat and use auto-tune. It's crazy!

Elizabeth Gillies

Tune Quotes #163765
#92. Be the one for others who they can look up to; the one you too want to.

Vikrmn

Tune Quotes #165258
#93. I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you.

Tommy Tune

Tune Quotes #167988
#94. A friend with seed (capital), is a business-man in deed.

Vikrmn

Tune Quotes #170617
#95. Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune body. I was always very disciplined in wanting to have that. That's one of my favorite things - playing a role with a physical requirement.

T. J. Thyne

Tune Quotes #178814
#96. TV is tricky. You can do some stuff and people will tune out and never tune back in. It's sort of like putting a bad taste in somebody's mouth. Some people may not ever tune in again. And then there's some people that will tune in just to tune in and see what's gon' happen.

NeNe Leakes

Tune Quotes #186783
#97. If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Tune Quotes #186855
#98. When you know who you truly are, you can live more freely and in tune with your karma.

Alan Finger

Tune Quotes #191993
#99. Cheap little rhymes
A cheap little tune
Are sometimes as dangerous
As a sliver of the moon.

Langston Hughes

Tune Quotes #192165
#100. It's great when somebody is able to communicate an actual shot sequence to you and you know the world you're inhabiting with that. It's literally a haunting tune.

Dan Stevens

Tune Quotes #194197

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