I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
People tune into court shows because they want to learn something and see resolution quickly.
Once we’re inside a tune, we can do anything with it.
Drums usually seem to tune themselves.
You hear many things, take a little from each experience, and tune your imagination to create believable characters and situations.
What’s great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don’t need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast.
That’s something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you’re not feeling right about what you’re doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don’t know if that’s true, but I do it.
If we can’t behave and speak in tune with our values, then they aren’t really our values.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Every week, as an 11-year-old kid, I would tune in to what was really the first American Idol-type program, a radio show called ‘Major Bowes’ Amateur Hour.’ The winning group on the evening of September 8, 1935, was called the Hoboken Four, and their spokesman was Frank Sinatra, then aged 19.
Any time you have two talents on the screen, the whole point is to create compelling television. You want to create something that the fans are going to tune in to watch.
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
There’s a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to each other is in fact part of the pleasure you take in them – rather than the differentiation in which Jerome Kern and George Gershwin indulged to great effect.
When I’m totally in tune with myself, and I’m flowing, it don’t matter who I’m fighting; that’s just a problem for anybody.
Trump often says he needs to keep his tax returns private until the IRS finishes auditing him. But the IRS itself has said this isn’t necessary. And recently, Trump changed his tune, saying he’ll release his returns as soon as Hillary Clinton releases the 33,000 emails she deleted from her email server.
I am not comparing myself to great artists, but when you see conceptual artists at work, on some level it’s reassuring to know they can paint figuratively. Likewise, when you listen to the ’50s jazz people who do these vast solos, you buy into it more if they open by playing a tune.
I have two children and it’s amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.
I sang in ‘Waiting for Guffman,’ and I sang in ‘A Mighty Wind.’ I can carry a tune, but I don’t like that Broadway singing.
We’re used to the characteristics of social media – participation, connection, instant gratification – and when school doesn’t offer the same, it’s easy to tune out.
I loved ‘Midnight Express’ and how ‘Chase’ had this dark urge to it, like the ‘Scarface’ theme tune.
I believe I am connecting to angels and spirit guides and ancestors. All of that is falling under the category of God and the energy presence of God, and that is what I can tap into when I tune in and slow down.
I used to love ‘Jeeves And Wooster.’ That theme tune was great. I remember writing to them when I was little to get the music so I could learn it on the piano, and they sent me the sheet music.
Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don’t work on me and I tune them out. It’s better to just be honest.
My role as king will be much like my mum’s as queen, so long as I remain in tune with the people.
I absolutely loved working with Mahesh Bhatt. He and I were so much in tune that he would just press a button and I would start.
Songs are like children. They are all special to me – you can’t just pick a favorite. Of course, ‘Lucky Man’ was a special tune with a wonderful story behind it. They have all done different things.
