Top 130 Tunes Quotes

I’m trying to play tunes in a new way, using all the same scales, harmonies, structures, but twist everything a little bit so that it comes out sounding different.

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

I thought, when I came to Nashville, I was going to hook up with some of the top country writers in town and write some country tunes.

Our tunes aren’t just sing-along tunes: they’re very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.

There’s a few tunes of mine that don’t have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.

I’ve always been of that mindset – when you’re writing tunes with people, there’s a traditional way of chopping things up, and then there’s the way that feels right. If people contribute, you hit ’em accordingly.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

My involvement in the Simpson criminal trial was a personal matter and did not involve Movie Tunes, its distributors or exhibitors.

I’m regarded outside New York University as a looney tunes leftie, self-hating Jewish communist; inside the university, I’m regarded as a typical, old-fashioned, white male liberal elitist. I like that. I’m on the edge of both; it makes me feel comfortable.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

I think Barry Gibb would be a wonderful person to work with. Because he just writes good tunes.

I like minor tunes.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are sad, and the lyrics follow the mood of the melody.

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.

I had this knack of writing opening lines to my tunes. This helped in making an instant impression.

And it’s all just from word of mouth. No big marketing. That means the folk who come to the gigs are there ’cause they love their tunes. That means it’s real.

I’m a big show queen to begin with. I think in show tunes.

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.

We are trying our best to spread the culture of Punjabi music all over the world. With the traditional rigid Punjabi music, people always had a myth that the music is very conventional, but nowadays, we are really thrilled to see how people are loving the tunes and beats of Punjabi music.

But every job I’ve had I just end up writing tunes and skiving – so everything has been leading up to it, but I’ve never had any ambition of getting big.

With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what’s right. And what’s right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.

I like old tunes when I’m driving. They’re fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.

Right now, I’m thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

I’m one of the culprits who keeps turning stuff around, shaking up original tunes and trying to stand the canon on its ear. But sometimes, you just need to sing the song.

From the first album I’m playing bass on a lot of the tunes, and piano on a lot of ’em, and drums, and guitars. I did that on almost every album.

In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship – that era’s predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes and an all-star cast.

Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?

A lot of our earlier material was freestyle tunes.

When I’m doing an exaggerated character, I hope it’s clear I don’t think this is how women do, or should, act. There’s aspects of Looney Tunes in drag. But there’s something poignant about a man dressed as a woman, talking about gender. It can make you realize how similar the genders really are.

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.

I’ve jumped off pianos, I stopped climbing up curtains when the screws popped once and I fell to the floor like a Looney Tunes cartoon character, and ended up off for six months because of a broken ankle.

I’m doing super quality control. I’ll have five tunes that I think are all good – before I would’ve put out all five tunes but now I’m just putting out that one out of the five that I think is the banger.

India is full of varied cultures that have introduced different kinds of folk tunes to us.

I don’t think I’m turning back the clock by doing these old tunes. I love rock and roll and popular music. It’s just that the spirits of the singers whose songs I do are living within me. That’s why the songs come out in the voices of the original singers. I’m not doing imitations. That’s the way they sound inside me.

Looking back, I had a great lockdown – the vibe of my family got me through it. Every night we’d cook, play tunes and dance.

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.

It is hard to be unhappy in a gay bar where everyone’s singing show tunes! In fact, I’ve spent many a night in those kind of places – in that particular place, actually – Marie’s Crisis: it’s truly a New York establishment.

My grandmother had always played show tunes from classic musicals at the piano when we were growing up, so that helped me fall in love with Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Lerner and Loewe, etc.

There’s only one cook in the kitchen, only one chef. I let the soloists do their thing – you’ve gotta let a man do a solo the way he wants – but as far as picking the tunes and working on the arrangements, I take full responsibility for it.

I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That’s how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context.

When you’re an unsigned artist, you have to do cover tunes, especially in bars.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

With Del Shannon – and I’ve got to tell you this – there’s nobody probably on the face of the earth that I identified more with musically. We used to sit and sing George Jones and Hank Williams tunes.

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.

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.

I am someone who tunes into more ethical journalism, and I’m not someone who dwells a lot on the negative, so I think I’d rather focus on the positive and forge ahead.

Hearing ‘This Is How It Feels’ on the radio was an amazing feeling, like starting again. But I believe that, in the end, my name will be bigger then the Verve because of all those great tunes and the power of what I stand for.

I like hearing the sort of harmonies people get into in different parts of the world. I love music that has a sense of allure to it, and exotic tunes. That’s what I’m drawn to.

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

I hope ‘Chess’ will hit the big screen. It seems a natural to me. Good venues, tunes, and politics.

I have a lot of dignity and am my own woman who does not dance to anyone’s tunes.

My mother Naseem Bano who was called the first ‘Pari Chehra’ or beauty queen of the film industry, had taken me to London after she saw me taking fancy to her ghaghra, lipstick and dance to the tunes of her film songs. For her, academics were more important than films.

I love melodic tunes and I think Kannada listeners have an ear for romantic songs.

This is the beauty of popular music, that it is based on simple and memorable tunes.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

Working in bars back then, in the ’50s, to get a job you had to play all kinds of music. There’d be customers come in and yell jazz tunes at you and yell rock ‘n’ roll tunes at you and polkas and rhythm and blues and country music.