Top Tunes Quotes
If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.
Bobby Short
I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
Otis Rush
When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.
Charlie Haden
When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.
Steve Lacy
I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
Zac Efron
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If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.
Bobby Short 
61% of people like this quote
I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
Otis Rush
58% of people like this quote
When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.
Charlie Haden
56% of people like this quote
When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.
Steve Lacy
55% of people like this quote
I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
Zac Efron
55% of people like this quote
If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.
Lee Ritenour
55% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.
Paul Anka
54% of people like this quote
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