Tunes Oh Quotes

#1. Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes - oh, and directions.

Jenn McKinlay

#2. Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In no way does faith make God work nor does it release some kind of miracle power. Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present

Eric Butterworth

#3. When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.

Orlando Bloom

#4. I like minor tunes.

Marian McPartland

#5. 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

#6. I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday. I miss singing a lot. I listen to Broadway show tunes in my car and sing along to them.

Bridget Regan

#7. I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

Tom Wopat

#8. Oh, there ain't no love, no Montagues or Capulets
Just banging tunes and DJ sets
And dirty dancefloors and dreams of naughtiness
I Bet that You Look Good on the Dancefloor

Arctic Monkeys

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

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#10. The others are all common mouths chattering, empty heads like wooden whistles blowing common tunes.

Jane Yolen

#11. He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes.

Rowland Hill

#12. For you can't hear Irish tunes without knowing you're Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.

Jennifer Armstrong

#13. But don't hunt for dissonance:
There is no such thing;
People dance to all tunes.

Antonio Machado

#14. As Rowland Hill said that he could not see why Satan should have the best tunes, so neither can I see why he should have the most graceful speakers!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. My feelings have changed about ballroom dancing because when I am mad I can dance to blow some steam off. Dancing is fun because you can dance to tunes like 'Hit the Road Jack'.

David

#16. The best tunes are songs with a face. You recognize them. You know them. It's like a person. They have a face that's outstanding. Other songs don't have a face. You just hear them, that's all. The really good ones are few and far between.

Cindy Walker

#17. If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#18. Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.

Gloria Estefan

#19. Change ain't looking for friends. Change calls the tune we all dance to.

Al Swearengen

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Even when other powers have been lost and people may not even be able to understand language, they will nearly always recognize and respond to familiar tunes. And not only that. The tunes may carry them back and may give them memory of scenes and emotions otherwise unavailable for them.

Oliver Sacks

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.

Nora Roberts

#26. 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

#27. Nothing lasts forever. But there is new life; new colours, fresh words, new tunes to compose. There is now; time present, time future. We build with new bricks and hope our voices are heard, our music is sung and our love cherished for as long as it is offered.

Carol Drinkwater

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.

Steve Lacy

#31. 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

#32. Buddy Holly was the geekiest looking guy in the world, but he had some really rockin tunes.

Chris Cheney

#33. As we rode along LaBoeuf commenced whistling tunes, perhaps to take his mind off his sore arm. Rooster said, "God damn a man that whistles!" It was the wrong thing to say if he wished it to stop.

Charles Portis

#34. Running Makes you more spiritually aware and in tune with your inner-self.

Fauja Singh

#35. I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.

B. D. Wong

#36. When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.

Pat Metheny