Best music & tunes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.”

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Author:Thomas Fuller

“I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.”

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Author:Charles Lamb

“I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.”

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Author:Pearl Bailey

“And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great tune to which the planets roll!”

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Author:Frances Sargent Osgood

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

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Author:Ma Rainey

“People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

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

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Author:James Brown

“It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.”

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Author:Chick Corea

“I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.”

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Author:Billie Holiday

“Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.”

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Author:Kin Hubbard

“If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.”

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Author:Count Basie

“Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.”

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Book:The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...

Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...

“In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.”

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Author:Robert Schumann

“When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.”

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Author:Dexter Gordon

“Sound is the first thing that we tune into.”

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Author:Lee Konitz

“There are a million good tunes.”

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Author:Marian McPartland

“At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes? I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.”

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Book:The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

“We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were written while we were in India a year before. So there was just a bit of chorus here and a verse there. We welded them all together into a routine.”

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Author:George Harrison

“In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is no more than an extremely rapid skilfully carried out improvement of the originally inexactly located pitch.”

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Author:Carl Flesch

“I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same notes over and over. Chirps and tweets and trills and burples. It's as if the insect orchestra is forever tuning its instruments, forever waiting for the maestro to tap his baton and bring them to order. I, for one, hope the maestro never comes. I love the music mess of it.”

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Book:Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“What I think I do is to relate any new material to how similar it is to something else. The closest that I can come up with something that's already in my experience, the easier it becomes. All I have to do then is remember where it differs, like relating a chord sequence that comes from some other tune, or several different tunes, or maybe parts of them and then work it from there.”

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Author:Tal Farlow

“I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.”

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Author:Kim Wilde

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