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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. -- Emily Dickinson
I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today. -- Buddy Rich
I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes. -- Jonny Greenwood
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out. -- Timothy Leary
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. -- Thomas Fuller
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. -- Wayne Dyer
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. -- Kin Hubbard
I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle,' and the other isn't. -- Ulysses S. Grant
I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. -- Rumi
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. -- Albert Einstein
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. -- George Washington Carver
As this New Year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you. -- Billy Graham
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him. -- Hudson Taylor
Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own. They know the words, but they have not learned the tune. -- Milton Friedman
Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. -- Nicolas Cage
The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible. -- Nikola Tesla
For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited. -- C. S. Lewis
Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. To me, he's a great actor. -- Nicolas Cage
No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Take a few moments every day to sit in silence and turn your full awareness inward to connect with your Spirit. These moments of silence can occur anytime and anyplace. The more you learn to tune in wherever you are, the easier it will become. -- Sonia Choquette
Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count, voices that are going to add too little worth to your future. Don't waste time on the shallow and the silly. Tune those voices out and tune in voices that are going to add something to your life -- Jim Rohn
When we live apart from God, our lives get out of tune - out of harmony with others and with God. But if we live in tune with the Master, we, too, will find ourselves surrounded by His beautiful music. As this new year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you. -- Billy Graham
Halloween festivities included an epic scavenger hunt & lots of Looney Tunes. -- Dianna Agron
I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head. -- Petra Haden
I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes. -- R. L. Stine
I like the old-school Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons. I'm talking Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian! -- Colin Kaepernick
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons. -- Billy Collins
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons. -- Billy Collins
I dont really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Looney Tunes and old classic cartoons. -- Ty Simpkins
I don't really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch 'Adventure Time', 'The Amazing World of Gumball', and 'Looney Tunes' and old classic cartoons. -- Ty Simpkins
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes. -- Terri Windling
There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are. -- Peter Ackroyd
Tunes have notes and tempos and rules. If the tune is "All the Things You Are," you have to adhere to its structure and to the tradition behind that structure. -- John Kao
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
I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before. -- Imelda May
Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book. But, under an interrogation light I would probably have to say 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte. -- Ann-Marie MacDonald
I will say you could always look at 'Looney Tunes' and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about the beats of comedy. I think you can find out about awkward pauses, because I think they did those well. -- Jim Rash
They-" He stopped and just blinked at me for a minute. "You know, people are always saying that you're cuckoo. Looney Tunes. Off the freaking edge. But I tell 'em, no, she's okay. She's got some...anger management issues. But you know what? They're right. You're nuts. -- Karen Chance
It sounded nothing like the classic "That's all folks" that the character did. So everytime I'm asked to do it - and nine out of ten "Looney Tunes" shows ends with Porky coming out saying "That's all folks" - I'll say to them, which one do you want? -- Bob Bergen
There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes. -- Calvin Harris
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. -- Thomas Beecham
I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't. -- Ulysses S. Grant
I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes. -- Matt Cameron
I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes. -- Paul Anka
I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing. -- Jenson Button
Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going. -- Richie Sambora
It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes. -- Shreya Ghoshal
The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. -- Ed Sheeran
I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty. -- Thom Yorke
Over at the Olivia Pope & Associates set, we're like middle school children. Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around; there's show tunes and fart noises. -- Darby Stanchfield
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble! -- Etta James
I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room. -- Mary Lou Williams
I really cherish the memories I have of my trips. For some reason, when you travel, it's like your mind picks up on the fact that this is something uncharacteristic, so it tunes in more acutely and remembers better. -- Jennette McCurdy
For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too. -- Tom Waits
I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it. -- Ian Jackson
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with. -- Neil Peart
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying. -- Jon Landau
A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor. -- Mike Huckabee
There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about. -- Pritam Chakraborty
The lips know only shallow tunes -- Calvin Miller
There are a million good tunes. -- Marian McPartland
Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes. -- Nora Roberts
Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics. -- G. H. Hardy
Very few people do covers of my tunes. -- Frank Zappa
Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle. -- Peter Gabriel
Why should the devil have all the best tunes? -- William Booth
Most people remember me for a couple of tunes. -- Colin Hay
He who pays the piper can call the tunes. -- John Ray
I love the show tunes; I love all of them. -- Kelly Stables
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. -- John Masefield
What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one. -- William Shakespeare
What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights! -- Emile M. Cioran
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle -- Sir Thomas Beecham
Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.. -- John Betjeman
I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes. -- Otis Rush
My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes. -- Tommy Tune
I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car. -- Daniel Radcliffe
The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself. -- Martin Luther
Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes? -- George Bernard Shaw
The Devil has all the best tunes? My arse! Metalville just got a new sheriff. -- Mark Rice
Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present. -- Eric Butterworth
Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees. -- Wayne Campbell
I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes. -- Don Imus
For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. -- Tom Waits
I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes... Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons. -- Dr. Dre
The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy. -- Colum McCann
Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self. -- Kenny Werner
I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes. -- Bryan Clay
Buddy Holly was the geekiest looking guy in the world, but he had some really rockin tunes. -- Chris Cheney
There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes. -- Emily Dickinson
My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day. -- Pete Seeger
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. -- James Brown
Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren't partyin'. -- Bill Hicks
I will fucking kill you and anyone else who gets in the way of me and my tunes. -- Bradley Sands
For you can't hear Irish tunes without knowing you're Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor. -- Jennifer Armstrong
Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough. -- Ry Cooder
We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour. -- Oscar Peterson
Whenever I have a bunch of tunes written, I always find a kind of uniform that accompanies the songs. -- Jenny Lewis
Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises. -- Darby Stanchfield
We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger. -- Raymond Khoury
I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son. -- Duke Ellington
One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes. -- Sarah Vowell
I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. -- John Masefield
The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together. -- Paul Lansky
I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention. -- Earl Scruggs
It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers -- Terry Pratchett
Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue. -- Isaac Watts
If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come. -- Bobby Short
There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write. -- Noel Gallagher
Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth. -- Elihu Burritt
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
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
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
Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning. -- Richard Bangs
I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein. -- Tommy Bolin
Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you. -- Rob Sheffield
The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don't actually 'enjoy' listening to it. -- Liz Miller
When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes! -- Keith Jarrett
I just do a random roulette wheel version of what I've recorded or sometimes tunes I haven't recorded. It's a collection of whatever happens, happens. -- Leon Redbone

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