Quotes of: Tuning Keyword

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

Lee Ritenour

I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. Everything is in tune: the voice, the type of music, who I am and who people think I am.

Sarah Brightman

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

Yancy Butler

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.

Ulysses S. Grant

I have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I'll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing.

John Scofield

Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.

Kim Smith

Yet the laboriously sought musical epiphany rarely compares to the unsought, even unwanted tune whose ambush is violent and sudden: the song the cab driver was tuned to, the song rumbling from the speaker wedged against the fire-escape railing, the s...

Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears

Tell yourself as it gets cold and gray falls from the air that you will go on walking, hearing the same tune no matter where you find yourself— inside the dome of dark or under the cracking white of the moon's gaze in a valley of snow. Tonight as i...

Selected Poems

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

Born in Fire

Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret.

The Broken Wings

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

Ethel Merman

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

Sing me a love song in a slow, southern drawl to the tune of sunny days...

Magic in the Backyard

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

The Telling

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

Jonathan Coe

The jukebox played some hillbilly tune; steel guitar and emotion-choked moaning...

Philip K. Dick

Money flows to me freely, copiously, and endlessly. I AM tuned into the flow of prosperity and abundance!

Ron Barrow

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

Rowland Hill

When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.

Sheena Easton

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

Sarah Vowell