If you’re unwell you can simply cuddle up in bed and tune into a thriller. It’s the best remedy.
Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It’s not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.
If you put your hand on the piano, you play a note. It’s in tune. But if you put it on the violin, maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. You have to figure it out.
You can radically change a person’s life with a tune. I don’t think people truly understand or appreciate how powerful that is.
Certain people can keep a word tune, so to speak, and certain people cannot. And, above all, certain people can tell a story, and other people can’t. They don’t hear that point where something else has to come.
When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was ‘Jesus Christ Superstar.’ Everyone’s familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it’s not even funny.
I sang ‘American Pie’ a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It’s a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.
Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?
It’s fine to keep releasing tune after tune if you can keep up with that pace but I can’t. I’m not the guy that will have the hot tune every month. That’s not me!
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.
Whether you’re talking about MSNBC or Fox or CNN, it’s all about getting enough interest out there, sensationalizing the story in such a way that people are compelled to tune in.
I went to see one of those pianos drowned in tsunami water near Fukushima and recorded it. Of course, it was totally out of tune, but I thought it was beautiful. I thought, ‘Nature tuned it.’
I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.
The second the news comes on TV, people turn it off or tune it out. People don’t want to hear the other side.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.
Computers can be taught that certain tune or certain chords changes will sound pleasant together, but I don’t think it’s going to reach a point where a machine will generate ideas and styles.
I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn’t anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.
When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I’m going to paint. It’s like when you’re walking down the street with your hands in your pockets, humming a tune, you don’t know what you’ll be humming five minutes from now.
I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You’ve got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do.
I would get records by Earl Scruggs… I would tune my banjo down and I’d pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking… And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.
When kids tune in and see Jordan Devlin, Trent Seven, Pete Dunne, Wolfgang on the WWE Network, and then they see a poster at the town hall for their local wrestling show, they’re gonna say, ‘Oh my God, that’s Pete Dunne. I wanna go see him.’
Bike riding is great for your thinking. I can’t say I’ve written an entire tune while cycling, but riding has definitely inspired songwriting ideas.
Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing – the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music – if it’s a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.
One lesson I learned with Pomplamoose is that there will always be haters. Part of achieving some level of success is learning to tune out the rage.
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
I was playing with the audience between takes. And the SNL’ crew was like, OK, we see you.’ I’m like, Dude, they’re right there.’ If you were playing a rock show, you don’t just go quiet and tune your guitar between songs. You have a little bit of chat, a little bit of banter.
I just always felt really confident, comfortable, and free as a kid – I understood what it was like to feel powerful and strong without having any negative connotation early on. And even to this day, I feel in tune with my body. I can sense when I get out of balance.
The genome could be thought of as a kind of piano with twenty-five thousand keys. In some cases, a few keys may be out of tune, which can cause the music to sound wrong. In others, if one key goes dead the music turns into a cacophony, or the whole piano self-destructs.
The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is an extraordinary gift.
I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.
I wanted a song my 6-year-old niece could listen to in the car. ‘Everyday is Christmas’ sounds like a sweet sentiment, but in reality if every day were actually Christmas it would be a candy cane-riddled hellscape from which the human race could never awaken. So we’re lucky it is just a lighthearted Christmas tune.
Anything can become a big tune in Scandinavia because people decide what they want to listen to. So I think that’s very motivating because songwriters can really think outside the box. A great song – whether or not it’s radio-friendly – can really blow up here.
I just don’t want to cut a tune and come in later on and put things on it.
I’m so in tune with rocks and nature. On any rock around the world, if I hurt the rock, I feel like I’m hurting myself.
My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that’s the reason my batting average is so high, not because I’ve discovered some brilliant formula.
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
The people who follow you should have a reason to do that. You shouldn’t talk like everyone else. The stars and athletes drive the sports. People tune in to see so and so fight.
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
I bet Maurice Gibb’s heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin’ Alive.
There’s something about the waltz in particular, where one person leads and the other follows, that helps you get in tune with each other.
You have to, as an individual, know how to tune that stage of your life that’s in the past out.
We would work up a tune that would make me learn a drum pattern I hadn’t played before. In the early stages, the pattern wouldn’t just fall into place, and I would start thinking about it. And the more I thought about it, the worse it would get.
I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good – the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself… Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!
I’m just in tune to myself and what I need from the universe.
When I write a tune – and it’s been like this for many years – I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.
I’ve always been very in tune to my voice and to other people’s voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects – I collected them like stamps.
I find when I’m more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc.; things becoming more composed.
I think if you make good, interesting content with compelling story lines and good characters, people will tune into the web for as long as you want them to.
This song ‘All Aboard,’ that tune allowed me to expand and kind of offer my audience something totally different because it’s not bachata – I’m singing English, and that was really fun.
We obviously try to be in tune with what our users want.
Sport is increasingly played according to the tune, and rules, of those with the biggest bucks, whether their practices be legal or illegal.
I think, for me, personally, I try to be sensitive to issues as I learn about them. And I also try to constantly become not only a certain type of person but also become more in tune to the issues I’m covering. As I get older, I think that things just affect me more.
I can literally count on one and a half hands how many people in WWE treated me the same pre-Mark and post-Mark. Michelle McCool didn’t change, I’m still me. There were a ton of people that found out I was dating Mark and was like, ‘Oh, I better change my tune and be super nice.’
