"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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"Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life."
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"Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren't partyin'."
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"Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune."
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"To execute a vision, good or bad, you've got to tune out the noise."
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"All Nature will commune with you when you are in tune with God. Realization of this truth will make you a master of your destiny."
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"He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes."
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"If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice at all, he might truly have been said to have done so instinctively."
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"As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds."
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"I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships."
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"I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500."
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"For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon."
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"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."
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"He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to."
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"That's life (that's life), that's what all the people say You're ridin' high in April, shot down in May But I know I'm gonna change that tune When I'm back on top, back on top in June"
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"Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway."
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