Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"Reality whistles a different tune underwater."
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Tunes
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Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"You can't teach the old maestro a new tune."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom."
Wayne Campbell
Character
"Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees."
Calvin Harris
Musician
"There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes."
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"I taught myself to tune in to another persons wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them."
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"Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing 'Melancholy Baby' and you've got dance music."
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"I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them."
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"Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones."
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"All there is responds to a word of praise. God responds. We respond. Everything responds. The whole world sparkles, quivers, comes alive. Things vibrate and are quickened. We vibrate and are quickened. Heaven and earth are in tune with us, and we are in tune with them. When we give praise, everything wants to give in return."
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"As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom."
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"A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it."
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"If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God."
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"The words are the important thing. Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune."
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"Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals."
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"The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God."
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"I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars."
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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
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"Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze."
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"The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel."
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"For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes."
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"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."
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"What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!"
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"Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself."
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"Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations."
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