Top 383 Tunes Quotes & Sayings

As a composer, I only give directors tunes I'm happy with.

There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very old influences. I love American music of absolutely all stripes, including show tunes, advertising jingles, theme tunes from quiz shows, all kinds of American music.

The lips know only shallow tunes

He who pays the piper can call the tunes.

I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.

Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

This is the beauty of popular music, that it is based on simple and memorable tunes.

Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.

Working in bars back then, in the '50s, to get a job you had to play all kinds of music. There'd be customers come in and yell jazz tunes at you and yell rock 'n' roll tunes at you and polkas and rhythm and blues and country music.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

There are a million good tunes.

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.

The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.

Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present.

Even when other powers have been lost and people may not even be able to understand language, they will nearly always recognize and respond to familiar tunes. And not only that. The tunes may carry them back and may give them memory of scenes and emotions otherwise unavailable for them.

Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.

Blue grass was the outgrowth of Irish music. As a matter of fact a lot the tunes, a lot of the melodies and the jigs... have different names but are actually the same tunes.

I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't think it was great, it's not out there.

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.

There isn't one thing in particular; rather, a lot of different things give me inspiration. I tend to come up with tunes when I do things that are not part of my daily routine, like traveling. But even during my everyday life, I come up with tunes when I'm emotionally moved. By looking at a beautiful picture, scenery, tasting something delicious, scents that bring back memories, happy and sad things... Anything that moves my emotion gives me inspiration.

I count my time by times that I meet thee; These are my yesterdays, my morrows, noons, And nights, these are my old moons and my new moons. Slow fly the hours, fast the hours flee, If thou art far from or art near to me: If thou art far, the bird's tunes are no tunes; If thou art near, the wintry days are Junes.

I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

I like minor tunes.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.

Very few people do covers of my tunes.

When you're an unsigned artist, you have to do cover tunes, especially in bars.

Halloween festivities included an epic scavenger hunt & lots of Looney Tunes.

What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one.

Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.

The Woody Guthrie 'Dust Bowl' tunes were really fascinating.

A lot of our earlier material was freestyle tunes.

My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.

I love melodic tunes and I think Kannada listeners have an ear for romantic songs.

I have a lot of dignity and am my own woman who does not dance to anyone's tunes.

Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.

Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.

I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.

Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

I still maintain that Looney Tunes is the funniest program ever made.

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes!

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

When I was composing for 'The Villain,' I looked at it as a fan and came up with tunes accordingly.

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

I'm doing super quality control. I'll have five tunes that I think are all good - before I would've put out all five tunes but now I'm just putting out that one out of the five that I think is the banger.

What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!

The devil always has the better tunes!

I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.