Tunes Quotes
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I remember listening to like gospel-y blues tunes. I'd just listen to the rhythm and the music was upbeat. Always upbeat if you get like a good rhythm you can nod your head. You just feel good. But then when you listen to the lyrics it was quite sad.
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The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.
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My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.
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If we found some other dude, to sing I'd love to move on. Write some cool tunes and change the name and go on like that. I don't see continuing as Alice and replacing somebody. We're not trying to replace Layne. We want to play these songs one more time, and if it seems like the right thing to do, it'll happen. I don't know how long it will go or where it will take us. It's kind of a tribute to Layne and our fans, the people who love these songs. It's not some 'I'm broke and I need the money' situation. We love playing together.
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The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.
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One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.
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Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.
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A woman who rides a motorcycle is in tune with the universe, a candidate for high adventure.
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I will fucking kill you and anyone else who gets in the way of me and my tunes.
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I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.
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After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.
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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.
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I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
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I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.
