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Letter "T" » tunes
«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.»
«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've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.»
«Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.»
Author: Sir Thomas Beecham
| About:
Composers
| Keywords:
chauffeur, chauffeured, chauffeurs, composers, errand, errands, tunes, whistle
«Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity»
«The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.»
«Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.»
Author: Samuel Butler
| Keywords:
allow for, as it were, a trifle, compromise, get on, sharp, trifle, tunes
«I know only two tunes: One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' and the other isn't.»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
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doodle, one of them, tunes, Yankee-Doodle, Yankee
«There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes»
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