Tunes Quotes

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

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Attention
  • Enjoy
  • Pay

• If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Voice
  • Gold
  • Harps

• A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it.

  

  Ma Rainey
  • Up
  • Like
  • Staircase

• Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Men
  • Happy
  • Needs

• 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
  • Stories
  • Bible
  • Theater

• The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from . . . whatever your tunes were over there, we played them in New Orleans.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Houses
  • Styles
  • New Orleans

• I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so — I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.

  

  Ben Webster
  • People
  • Play
  • Stills

• I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Band
  • Memphis
  • Arranger

• I'm just really old [in Doctor Strange]. Just really, really old. There is I suppose a sort of theme tune which I'm really interested in.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Strange
  • Doctors
  • Theme

• I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat

  

  Kiersten White
  • Order
  • Boat
  • Obscenity

• 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 Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Finals
  • Picks

• I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Play
  • Mean
  • Tunes

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

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Great
  • Musicians
  • Fine

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

  

  James Brown
  • Music
  • Names
  • Berlin

• Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.

  

  Dickey Betts
  • Break
  • Complex
  • Tunes

• I don't know what any of my tunes are about, they're just out there. I'm not good with words. I just say the first thing that comes into my head.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Head
  • I Don't Know
  • First Thing

• When I was 14 years old, I used to record stuff off the radio and do mixes with the pause button on my cassette player. I’ve always loved doing mixes. I never liked sport or anything like that. Mixing tunes together was just what I always wanted to do...

  

  Liam Howlett The Prodigy
  • Player
  • Record
  • Radio

• I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Industry
  • Felt
  • Rocks

• I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Writing
  • Couple
  • California

• What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Grief
  • Minutes
  • Tunes

• The lips know only shallow tunes

  

  Calvin Miller
  • Knows
  • Lips
  • Shallow

• The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Keep
  • Allowed
  • Tunes

• Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that's something that shouldn't be dissected

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • Sometimes
  • Littles
  • Drunk

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