Quotes about tune
A collection of quotes on the topic of tune, likeness, doing, time.
Quotes about tune

Alex Jones: The "Justin Biebler" Rant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDMB0KyhPN8, 21 February 2011.
2011

Eric Blom (ed.) Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th edn. (London: Macmillan, 1954) vol. 7, p. 27.
Criticism

1993-11-18 at Sony Music Studios, New York City, New York (MTV Unplugged).
Stage banter

Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 14

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.

Read from his musical diaries while speaking at St. Vladimir’s Seminary https://vimeo.com/221011528/

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
Source: Neuromancer (1984)

“Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.”
Source: Tears of the Moon

Conversation, New York, April 12, 1969 PrabhupadaBooks.com http://prabhupadabooks.com/conversations/1969/apr/new_york/april/12/1969?d=1
Quotes from other Sources, Quotes from other Sources: Violence and Dictatorship

“The spirit of Advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

“Life is water, dancing to the tune of macro molecules.”
Water, Energy, and Life: Fresh Views From the Water's Edge, Gerald Pollack, 01/30/2008, University of Washington TV, February 5, 2011 http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.aspx?rID=22222,.

How to Search for Truth, letter to Hubert W. Pelt (1930-02-24)

“I don’t have to explain myself. My frequency is very common and is open to anybody to tune in”
Quoted by Joslyn Pine in: "Book of African-American Quotations"

On Salman Khan, 10 September, 2011. http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Bollywood/Salman-is-number-one-Aamir-Khan/Article1-743829.aspx.

"Two Essays in Analytical Psychology" In CW 7: P. 188 (1967)

Breton's quote in the Introduction to the exhibition of Gorky's first show, Julien Levy Gallery, March 1945; as quoted in Arshile Gorky, – Goats on the roof, ed. by Matthew Spender, Ridinghouse, London, 2009, pp. 257-258
after 1930

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

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), p. 435

The Osho Upanishad
Context: I do not ordinarily make prophecies, but about this I am absolutely prophetic: the coming hundred years are going to be more and more irrational, and more and more mystical. The second thing: After a hundred years people will be perfectly able to understand why I was misunderstood — because I am the beginning of the mystical, the irrational. I am a discontinuity with the past. The past cannot understand me; only the future will understand. The past can only condemn me. It cannot understand me, it cannot answer me, it cannot argue with me; it can only condemn me. Only the future … as man becomes more and more available to the mysterious, to the meaningless yet significant … After a hundred years they will understand. Because the more man becomes aware of the mysterious side of life, the less he is political; the less he is a Hindu, a Mohammedan, a Christian; the less is the possibility for his being a fanatic. A man in tune with the mysterious is humble, loving, caring, accepting the uniqueness of everybody. He is rejoicing in the freedom of each individual, because only with freedom can this garden of humanity be a rich place.

On Serbian war aims and human rights abuses during the post-Yugoslavian conlicts, and especially the Bosnian War, as quoted in (10 June 1993)
Context: It is unfortunate for all that no moral issue has ever been clearer. Any attempt to plea-bargain with outlaws and renegades will only be at the expense of honor, decency and self-respect. The Serbs, are two-dimensional people with a craving for simplicity and an ideology so basic it can be understood without effort. They need enemies, not friends, to focus their two-dimensional ideas. Life for them is a simple tune, never an orchestration, or even a pleasant harmony. Animals make use of their resources with far greater felicity than these retorted creatures, whose subscription to the human race is well in arrears.

“There is one constant that seems to be fine tuned…and that is dark energy.”
The Atheism Tapes (2004)
Context: There is one constant that seems to be fine tuned... and that is dark energy.

A speech to the American Bar Association after the TWA Flight 847 hijacking. James Bovard, Terrorism and Tyranny, p. 23 http://books.google.de/books?id=VQoH4fy4m88C&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=We+are+especially+not+going+to+tolerate+these+attacks+from+outlaw+states+run+by+the+strangest+collection+of+misfits,+Looney+Tunes+and+squalid+criminals+since+the+advent+of+the+Third+Reich&source=bl&ots=tv3daFha5S&sig=M4GXSs9s1uDXNnykGGcr14jaE6g&hl=de&ei=pbe-TMf6OoTLswb18M3FDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=We%20are%20especially%20not%20going%20to%20tolerate%20these%20attacks%20from%20outlaw%20states%20run%20by%20the%20strangest%20collection%20of%20misfits%2C%20Looney%20Tunes%20and%20squalid%20criminals%20since%20the%20advent%20of%20the%20Third%20Reich&f=false
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)
Context: Americans … are not going to tolerate intimidation, terror and outright acts of war against this nation and its people. And we are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich … There can be no place on earth where it is safe for these monsters to rest, or train or practice their cruel and deadly. We must act together – or unilateraly, if necessary – to ensue that these terrorists have no sanctuary, anywhere.

“When you dance with the devil, you don't get to pick the tune.”
Source: Infinity

“Cheap little rhymes
A cheap little tune
Are sometimes as dangerous
As a sliver of the moon.”
“You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal; you tune in different frequencies.”
Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life


Source: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
Context: I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
Source: Froi of the Exiles

“Let the sky rain potatoes," said a musing voice. "Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.”
Source: From the Corner of His Eye

“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore

“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”
Source: Born in Fire
Advice to the Poets (1731), p. 32

“Poetry is a magic of pauses … not a thing of tunes, but of heightened consciousness.”
Poetry and Criticism - American Peoples Encyclopedia , Groller , New York 1965

This summer the roses are blue; the wood is of glass. The earth, draped in its verdant cloak, makes as little impression upon me as a ghost. It is living and ceasing to live which are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
The last sentences of the Surrealist Manifesto, 1924
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)

His comment to his wife On his daily prayers he would sings devotional songs out of tune and metre. Quoted in page=104

The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/31/AR2007053101848.html (June 1, 2007)
Twitter https://twitter.com/IanDarke/status/484276578189574144 (2 July 2014).
2010s, 2014, 2014 FIFA World Cup

2 quotes from Kandinsky's letter to Hans Arp, November 1912; in Friedel, Wassily Kandinsky, p. 489; as cited in Negative Rhythm: Intersections Between Arp, Kandinsky, Münter, and Taeuber, Bibiana K. Obler (including transl. - Yale University Press, 2014
Kandinsky was trying to explain to Arp his state of mind when he made his sketch for 'Improvisation with Horses' https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Wassily_Kandinsky_Cossacks_or_Cosaques_1910%E2%80%931.jpg, 1911, a watercolor belonging to Arp. Kandinsky had told Arp that he could have one of his pictures included in the 'Moderne Bund' (second) exhibition in Zurich, 1912, and this was the one Arp selected
1910 - 1915
p. 91-92.

Source: Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom (1994, with Edward Esko), p. 62

Woonotes II, st. 7
1840s, Poems (1847)

What Is A Jazz Composer? (1971)

“In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.”
Quoted in: Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, Evan Esar (ed.), 1949, p. 156.

Tweet by @realDonaldTrump https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/887280380423938048 (18 July 2017)
2010s, 2017, July

“Bubble, bubble, flows the stream
Like an old tune through a dream.”
In Haunts of Bass and Bream.