Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Sir Thomas Beecham
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The tunes Johannesburg is playing are the new sounds of a new nation.
Donald Reid
The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind.
Barry Diller
[He could belt out traditional blues and jazz with the best of them, but - to the dismay of jazz purists - he would also record pop tunes that sold millions of albums.] I'm a pop commercial musician, and I've got a successful format, ... If you have the ability to perform your musical idea, you become a good jazz player.
Al Hirt
With Christian, Antonio and David, I will mix it up, as usual, some tunes as a Trio, some as a Quartet, extended duet sections, and more.
Pat Metheny
I've wanted to record some old tunes by other artists. It just seemed like the right time.
Susan Tedeschi
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
James Brown
[On Blueprint of a Lady – Sketches of Billie Holiday, Nnenna captures Holiday's feisty spirit and independence with her selection and interpretation of signature tunes.] Billie Holiday really sang what she had to say in her own way, ... That's one of the things that was so impressive about her; she was a survivor, and had an absolutely brilliant, innovative concept of her own.
Nnenna Freelon
Language is like a crack'd kettle on which we beat out tunes to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
Gustave Flaubert
In the process, we found we had a lot of common songwriting approaches and we seemed to collaborate well together. We thought we were writing some great tunes too, so we decided to make a go of it.
Geoff Pemble
This new adaptation to our present policy just fine-tunes it a little more on what clothing air marshals can wear to blend in.
Brian Doyle
1947 was a good year. A lot of the tunes that we've learned, whether from Nat 'King' Cole, Louis Jordan or someone else -- those 1947 tunes come up a lot.
Dominic Suchyta
He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes.
Rowland Hill
We're going to do some old traditional folk songs. We haven't completely set up a list. We'll play some music from modern Celtic rock bands like the Seven Nations. We'll play a couple of more contemporary Irish tunes that I wouldn't call rock; they're more contemporary ballads. We haven't set it all out yet, but they run the gamut.
Jim Angell
My whole recording studio, tons of music, a lot of original scores that I can't ever get back, maybe 50 or 60 tunes I spent years working on -- all gone.
Maurice Brown
I put a notice in our weekly paper saying I'm looking for a DADGAG-tuned guitar player. Harmonically, Celtic music is not fancy, that's the beauty of it. When you're playing tunes with a very limited tonal palette, you want open, bleak, sparse playing that doesn't color the music too much.
Jamie Laval
We're going to do almost all '60s tunes. We've got a lot to pull from the archives, and I'm sure people who remember us will really enjoy the show.
Burton Stahl
In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones-when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic is now-perhaps then these borderland experiences may be both easily expressed and readily recognized.
Charles Ives
The Beatles are one of the most iconic music groups of the 20th century. Their tunes touched so many people's lives. Liverpool's most famous sons touched all corners of the globe. They inspired a generation.
Drummond Bone
There are still the classic four-part harmony barbershop songs, but it's really evolved into adaptable music for today. When we perform, we do contemporary arrangements of popular songs, some doo-wop, some Sinatra tunes and, yes, some classic barbershop, too.
Jonny Moroni
The problem with sports coverage is that you can't predict if the game will be close, or if it will be a runaway. If it's a runaway, then everybody tunes out. You can't predict what will happen.
Douglas Gomery
We're absolutely not trying to replicate a bygone era. If we're doing these tunes now, it's because they hold up. They should evolve in some way, and after 20 years [if the band] is playing them the same way, something's wrong.
Jeff Berman
Diamond Dave set the pace. I talked to Sammy (Hagar), and we're interested in doing some Sammy tunes ... but we haven't really experimented with them live.
Randy Monroe
At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes. I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.
James Weldon Johnson
In the original New York production, which I directed, I had the good fortune to encounter a bluegrass group called the Red Clay Ramblers, out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Their musical sensibilities, musicianship, and great repertoire of traditional and original tunes fit the play like a glove.
Sam Shepard
I was doing what Taylor is doing before Bo and Constantine. I'm not so sure that Bo or Constantine would have been given a chance in auditions if I hadn't been successful with more rockin' tunes.
Jon Peter Lewis
What's kind of been lost is that those professional users like to listen to tunes, too, ... Now, they can use their digital recorder to listen to MP3 tunes on the road and they don't have to carry two devices.
Sally Smith
The group, composed of a trombone, French horn, tuba and two trumpets, performs pieces from the classics to show tunes to Dixieland to original compositions.
Jane Riley
Aside from perhaps the famous scream at the end of door No. 5, I couldn't tell you how that music sounds. You will not go home humming the tunes. But I think you go away from the theatre changed, haunted by the imagery.
Brian Deedrick
We'll sing certain programs of music, such as an Irish one or holiday tunes.
Joyce Mitchell
Whether a Stephen Foster medley for the CSO Chorus or a big-band medley of hit tunes over the past 50 years, Earl is fantastic.
David Stahl
I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.
Count Basie
Why should the devil have all the good tunes?
Rowland Hill
Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars.
Gustave Flaubert
I don't care if they pull a wagon with a boom box playing folk CDs. I just want to hear tunes, not talking.
Steve Zannetti
All I ever wanted to do was make a record. Here's what you do: you pick up your guitar, you rip a few people's tunes off, you swap them round a bit, get your brother in the band, punch his head in every now and again, and it sells. I'm a lucky bastard. I'm probably the single most lucky man in the world -- apart from our Liam.
Noel Gallagher
If we were just song in and song out, we'd go bananas, ... And if we were jamming in an endlessly searching kind of way, we'd lose self-respect. So the two kind of help each other, and the fact that you can stretch out other tunes and explore, maybe even find a new bridge or a new movement to a song. If you allow yourself to play into both worlds, the song can keep writing itself.
John Bell
She caused the change to start. She always marched to tunes the rest of us hadn't heard yet. She made a huge difference. We didn't agree on everything, but we both grew up in an environment that encouraged community service.
Harry Goldstein
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--.
Emily Dickinson
I wanted to program something totally different than anything that's been done in the area. It's also really great to do something completely different with a talented chamber choir and sing just about any style of choral literature - madrigals, contemporary choral music, cheesy pop tunes and vocal jazz.
Catherine Robinson
We went over Lead Belly's repertory with him. And we helped him round it off into concert form so that when he got up in front of his audience, he sang ballads and work songs and lullabies and children's games and square-dance tunes, the whole thing.
Alan Lomax
The style of dance that I do is called Ottawa Valley Step Dancing. The area was settled by people who came to work in lumber camps. They were mainly French, Irish, Scottish, German and Polish. They traded fiddle tunes and used their feet to accompany themselves. The dance style developed that way, but it's certainly evolved a lot since then.
April Verch
The idea to go for folk fusion is simple as folk music is accepted throughout the world because people can relate to such tunes wherever you play.
Dipak Sarma
Irish music has been great to me. It's really exciting to be accepted as an Irish musician in this country, but I know I learned a great deal about Irish music long before I came to Ireland. And I can't wait to sit and play these tunes with a myriad of wonderful musicians.
Eileen Mclane
One of my favorite tunes we cover is by Barry Cowsill, an artist I recently got into. He was a New Orleans native and recently passed away from hurricane Katrina.
Alfred Anderson
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