Tunes Quotes
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A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it.
Ma Rainey -
I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
Earl Scruggs
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Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
Neil Diamond -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
James Brown
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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 -
I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.
Robert Wyatt -
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 -
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 -
What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one.
William Shakespeare -
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
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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 -
The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.
Martin Luther -
One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.
Sarah Vowell -
For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.
Karl Lagerfeld