“When you’ve heard one bagpipe tune you’ve heard them both.”
Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 28 (p. 285)
“Such parliamentary bagpipes I myself have heard play tunes, much to the satisfaction of the people.”
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
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“I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“An Irish gentleman is someone who can play the bagpipes but won’t.”
Oscar Wilde
(1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
First ascribed to Wilde by The Boston Globe in 1991. The joke probably appeared for the first time in 1917, when The Atchison Weekly Globe attributed it to a local man named Frank Fiest.
Misattributed
Source: My Idea of a Gentleman Is He Who Can Play a Cornet and Won’t, Quote Investigator, 14 August 2021 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/04/21/cornet/,
“Thank you, if you appreciate the tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing more.”
Ravi Shankar
(1920–2012) Indian musician and sitar player
To the audience at The Concert for Bangladesh (1971)
Variant: Thank you, if you appreciate the tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing more.
“You heard me in my tune when I just heard confusion.”
Bono
(1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
“I don’t have to explain myself. My frequency is very common and is open to anybody to tune in”
RuPaul
(1960) Actriz de Televisa, dueña y señora de los ejidos cacaoahuateros
Quoted by Joslyn Pine in: "Book of African-American Quotations"
Abraham Lincoln
(1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
At the end of the Civil War, asking that a military band play "Dixie" (10 April 1865) as quoted in Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy (1962) by Hans Nathan. Variant account: "I have always thought "Dixie" one of the best tunes I have ever heard. Our adversaries over the way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it... I now request the band to favor me with its performance".
1860s
Manisha Koirala
(1970) Nepalese actress, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and social activist
Manish Koirala on Pyara.com http://www.pyara.com/stars/manisha/biography.cfm
Timothy Leary
(1920–1996) American psychologist
A Trip with Paul Kassner <!-- Politics of Ecstasy 1999 p. 215 -->
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)
Context: My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in.