"The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds."
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"Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle."
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"It would be positively boring if minds were in tune."
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"The lips know only shallow tunes"
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"It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims."
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"This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish."
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"It's great when somebody is able to communicate an actual shot sequence to you and you know the world you're inhabiting with that. It's literally a haunting tune."
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"Most people remember me for a couple of tunes."
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"My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune."
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"Ninety percent of the people don't realize that there is anything below the head. They think that the head is carried around by something very mysterious, and they're not aware that it's the body, something they should be in tune with."
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"There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything."
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"It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right."
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"To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune."
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"I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise."
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"After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk."
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"It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers"
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"I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow."
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"A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune."
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"With more people, there are more voices to tune out."
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"Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for harmony. He thought about the Pythagorean major third, the Didymus comma, the way the intervals sound out of tune rather than as though they were different notes. This, he thought, was where his brilliance at mathematics bled into his love of music; music was the realm in which his mathematical brain danced."
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