I still remember how hard I worked on the tune of ‘Raree rareeram… ;’ the first tune I tried was rejected.
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.
If I’m writing a tune with someone I’m making sure it’s what they wanna say and it’s articulating what they have to share.
We have more voices from more points of view on the C-SPAN call-in show than I’ve heard anywhere else. You can literally tune us in every day and hear it all. You can’t control it, and you shouldn’t control it.
If you’re behind the times, they won’t notice you. If you’re right in tune with them, you’re no better than they are, so they won’t care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them.
Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
Not only that – college doesn’t particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world.
Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I’m in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.
People say all kinds of hurtful things, but I’ve learned to tune it out the best I can.
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I’m still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
You’ve got to make sure you’re listening to the people that are important to listen to. And then everything else, you kind of have to tune out and do your thing.
Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I’m physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don’t think I’d look graceful at all on screen.
As far as playing instruments, it just feels good to have it under your hands. Cause sometimes those instruments have minor imperfections. Sometimes because they’re so old, they’re always out of tune a little bit.
I’ve always been aware of what I’ve been able to do and my ability to bring interest to a match and make people want to tune in and see.
Being out of tune sucks.
I organise jam sessions every month. We have an open session, so everyone knows about it, and we can get as many as 30 people showing up at the house. Somebody will play a tune, and everyone will pick up on it. My best friends are all musicians.
‘Homeward Bound.’ I find myself listening to that tune a lot when I’m traveling. Sitting in a railway station, wanting to go home, carrying all your stuff with you.
With all the strife in the world, we must never forget that there is always a new melody, a new tune, a fresh star.
Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.
When you’re too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities – kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.
In church, the music is for everyone. People are singing off tune, loud; they’re not ashamed – it’s for their healing. That’s kind of just what I strive for, that feeling.
I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when radio was less formatted. It was really special. You could hear a jazz song then a pop song then a show tune then some jazz. Basically, whatever the DJ felt like playing, he would play. He was educating you and exposing you to things you would never hear otherwise.
Social media seemed to promise a way to better connect with people; instead, it seems to have made it easier to tune out the people we don’t agree with.
Television is such an evolving medium. When you’re doing a TV show, it’s not like you just shoot for six weeks and you’re in an editing room with all of your footage. It’s like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what’s not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.
When I was first getting into the guitar, I played it incessantly. I lived it, breathed it, ate it, and slept it. I was also extremely self-critical, so from early on, I made sure to develop good playing habits – I constantly strove to sound in tune and have a great tone, and to play cleanly and in time.
The faith world to me is like a radio station. It’s there. And if you want to plug in and listen to it, kind of tune into it, it can definitely be helpful. I don’t know if it’s an energy? I don’t know what it is, but it fascinates me.
I love that Barry Seal is working for the CIA, and he’s an awful liar. It just goes to how honest this character is at the end of the day, even as he rips off the country and the world to the tune of becoming one of the wealthiest men in America. There’s an innate honesty, a purity to him.
When you’ve heard one bagpipe tune, you’ve heard them both.
I’m really in tune with my body and what it needs.
What’s happened in my career has been about knowing myself and realizing my flaws are my strengths, and to embrace them; to access what I’m really good at, and what I’m not so good at; and tune out the voices that get inside your head and make you think you can’t do something.
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
I found that the same things I loved about performing were the things I liked about directing and creating a piece – striking a chord that was in tune with the world and was reflecting back what I saw, just from a different angle.
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.
I’m pretty in tune in with fashion, what designers are doing.
There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn’ts and can’ts and wants that can be so chronic and familiar it becomes a kind of feminine Muzak, easy to dismiss, or to tune out altogether, even if you’re actively participating in it.
What I do and where I come from, the kind of music that I’m making, it’s definitely U.K. If I turned around and did a tune with Timbaland, it would be amazing, but it would be me kind of leaving where I’m coming from.
I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.
I was worried – I wasn’t sure I had the maternal instinct. But the minute my son came out, he was my favorite person on earth. I was crazily in tune with him, and I knew we were going to be fine.
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.
When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians, ‘Hot House’ was like a standard jam session tune.
I love Sertab Erener with ‘Everyway That I Can’ – that was an absolute tune.
I try to be pretty in tune with my body. If you play this game long enough, you’re going to wake up and one day your knee is going to hurt or your back is going to hurt.
I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what’s out there. To really be in tune.
On ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ I must insist that the sounds of the instrumentation are crucial to reflect what the movie should convey in terms of energy and emotion. It’s not just the melody or the tune.
The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
‘Johnny Tremain,’ Paul Revere’s Ride, today’s Tea Partiers – you have to tune all that out to get at the real story.
When I was much younger, my siblings and I would routinely tune in to watch ‘Bill Nye the Science Guy’ on PBS. He was a fascinating instructor bent on helping kids achieve a basic understanding of science. When he engaged in politics, it was only very briefly if at all.
‘Love Will Keep Us Together’ was a combination of three different singing styles – Al Green, the Beach Boys, and Diana Ross. I loved all these people, and I put their singing styles together and wrote that tune.
In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
When I was a kid, ‘Scooby Doo’ was, hands down, my favorite cartoon. Even when I was older, when I was in college studying and I needed to tune out for a while, I’d watch ‘Scooby Doo.’
There’s this Frank Wildhorn tune ‘Sarah’ – it’s not a widely known tune, but it’s my favorite song to sing.
Taking a solo on a tune is always a little bit scary.
It’s not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it’s what they’re born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
I’m definitely willing to film it for sure. I feel like I’ve taken people on this incredible journey on ‘Total Divas’ and ‘Total Bellas.’ They have seen me cry, get angry, and be so many different ways about marriage. I feel like for my fan base, my Bella Army, I should let them tune in to my wedding.
