I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn’t have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn’t important it would just be a poem.
There’s a difference between being a drag queen on TV where the masses can tune in and watch, and then at a nightclub where you have to be a certain age to get in. There’s a different decorum. We’re all trying to push boundaries, but also trying to stay in our lane.
There’s cleanliness to how I eat now. I’m much more in tune with my body, so now that I’m so in tune based on having become a semivegan, I can tell what foods affect energy levels. I can tell when I’ve been eating particularly high nutrient foods or I can tell when my glycemic levels are all over the place.
Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.
Seven Words’ is a wanderer’s tale, a well-worn subgenre in the tradition of farewell songs. The tune itself is trying to evoke the familiar act of leaving somebody in order to save them, or continue seeking.
I’m very physical. It’s an important part of being a woman – feeling good about yourself and really being in tune with your personality.
The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I’m not complacent about this.
I play in tune like a cello player and use legitimate vibrato. There are no tricks; it’s just all in the hands!
I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck’s a little bit bent and it’s a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
I don’t have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn’t call it ‘good.’ I can carry a tune.
People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone’s demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it’s nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.
A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.
‘Enlightened Rogues’ we made like the earlier ones: whatever tune came up, whatever direction it went in, that’s the way it went. That’s what we’ll always do. I think if we ever stop doin’ that, we ought to quit.
Look, when a song becomes a hit, it happens because of its tune and melody, and not for the lyrics in the first place.
Basically, my mother couldn’t hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing… you can’t get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it’s laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe – we are happiest when we are creating.
Taxpayers should not be on the hook for subsidizing former presidents’ lives to the tune of millions of dollars.
I listen to my songs so many times that I tend to lose objectivity. After I hear a tune around 30 times, I keep it aside, and revisit it after a while. Then, it starts sounding fresh again.
I’ve got a superstar like Usher singing bachata, a tune featuring Lil Wayne. I’m offering people more than just bachata. That captures a new audience that would listen to bachata because Usher is singing.
This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars… yet we have – to date – funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That’s quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.
I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people’s cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.
My heart is drawn to the small, out-of-the-way things that I can’t help but to give my focus and attention and care, ’cause they shut off what hijacks my brain and help to tune out what can cause me pain.
Shoot the bad guys and I’ll gladly sing a tune for you.
No one has any respect for someone who can play a million notes per minute but can’t put together a decent tune that someone can sing to or feel some sort of emotion from.
At Classic FM we’re not an exposed shoreline where anything might come in on the tide. We’re a lagoon; it’s safe. You can tune in late at night and know it won’t be contemporary.
When I sing a tune, the lyrics are important to me. Most of the standard lyrics I know well. And as soon as I hear an arrangement, I get ideas, kind of like blowing a horn. I guess I never sing a tune the same way twice.
I put out this record on Ninja Tune called ‘Florida’ when I was about 22. And at the same time, I was DJ’ing and beginning to mix stuff up and promote shows in Philadelphia and New York and my own parties and make mixtapes, put out bootleg white labels.
I always feel like young people are more emotionally in tune with new and timeless music.
There’s a lot of trickery that can go on in the studio, and there’s a lot that one can do – none of which I am interested in even slightly. I mean, you can actually tune vocals and stuff like that, but it’s so hideous, I can’t believe it.
I don’t get my inspiration from a specific source. It’s more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.
I did a lot of musicals when I first started my career, so I can carry a tune well.
My girlfriend tells me if I’m doing a movie I’m a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on ‘Boardwalk,’ because I’ve done it for so long and I’m so in tune with the character, she says I’m pretty happy most of the time.
I’ve performed solo for 20 years now, but I don’t do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.
It’s like my parents’ musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It’s their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!
Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.
I try not to tune in to politics until it’s two or three months before the election. Till then, it’s like watching preseason football.
If you look at a lot of the songs I’ve been involved in, there’s always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn’t moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck’s personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.
My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.
I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.
Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that’s something that shouldn’t be dissected.
Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
The jazz rhythm won’t be understood by the bulk of my audience. That’s the problem. We can get away with maybe one tune a night. It depends on where we place it. A song like ‘Beyond the Sea,’ the fans love that. It’s fresh.
I made hardcore music and that came kind of easy – it was what I knew. But it was a challenge for me to make a big pop tune.
Sometimes I’ll have sections that I’m not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they’ll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what’s an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.
I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel’s ‘Pavane pour une infante defunte’ but I couldn’t remember if it’s a tune or Latin prescription for piles.
I think, as e-commerce grows as a category, most e-commerce companies are focused on women because they are the decision makers and the consumers. When you think of e-commerce, and fashion is a big part of that, women are much more in tune with what other women are looking for online.
I always think that for each day of my life, the tune of that day is particular to that day. Each day brings a different tune and I follow whatever it is.
Whenever we compose a tune we must put our full heart into it, only then the output will be best. That is why every song of mine has a fresh feel.
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don’t like the tune.
I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. Everything is in tune: the voice, the type of music, who I am and who people think I am.
I was adopted, and so was my mom. And so I just was in tune with how life can be intentional. I feel like maybe that helped me to not feel super entitled to a lot of things as a kid.
I’m going to be quite choosy about singing. If I connect to a tune and like what I am offered to sing, I’ll do it. I am an actor by profession, not a singer.
