Quotes About Tunes

On 1970's The Lady and the Unicorn he applied his filigree technique to a procession of courtly dance tunes from across medieval Europe, including an old English tune, 'Trotto', and an Italian one, 'Saltarello', given a folk-drone feel by Renbourn's use of an unusual tuning and double-tracked with a sitar.

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.

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

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

I just like music. If it's hookey and good, I dig it.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

there were no bones in his body, only tunes, and no blood, but poetry.

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

In 1970, my label decided I should do a Christmas album and I put a bunch of tunes together. We couldn't decide what to call it and so I said 'Why not just say Merry Christmas in Spanish? Feliz Navidad.' They said, 'That's cool, Jose, but we need a title song.' So I just sat down and started to play.

Indian classical music is charming and currently there are a wide range of musicians who bring great classical tunes to the Bollywood industry.

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.

Crowded rooms and lonesome tunes and very little sky.

Oh, there ain't no love, no Montagues or Capulets Just banging tunes and DJ sets And dirty dancefloors and dreams of naughtiness I Bet that You Look Good on the Dancefloor

I quite often listen to Internet radio; especially the RnB section if I am jumpy.

I love songs, and I love to tell stories, and so a lot of times, if you really want a good story, you got to flip the radio dial over to country.

There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

I listen to a wide array of music, all depends on the mood I'm in at the time.

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

No, my advocates, my angels with sadist eyes, this is the beginning of my life, or the end. So I lean affirmation across the cafe table, and surrender my fifty years away with an easy smile. But the surety of my love is not dismayed by any eventuality which prudence or pity can conjure up, and in the end all that we can do is to sit at the table over which our hands cross, listening to tunes from the wurlitzer, with love huge and simple between us, and nothing more to be said.

I really like R&B more than rap.

And it's all just from word of mouth. No big marketing. That means the folk who come to the gigs are there 'cause they love their tunes. That means it's real.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises.