Famous quotes containing the word tune:
“My Poynz, I cannot frame me tune to fayne,
To cloke the trothe for praisse withowt desart,
Of them that lyst all vice for to retayne.
I cannot honour them that settes their part
With Venus and Baccus all theire lyf long;
Nor holld my pece of them allthoo I smart.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?1542)
“But since Thy loud-tongud Blood demands Supplies,
More from BriareusHands, than Argus Eyes,
Ill tune Thy Elegies to Trumpet-sounds,
And write Thy Epitaph in Blood and Wounds!”
—James Graham Marquess of Montrose (16121650)
“If you will play from a copy of a tune that is choppy,
Youll get all my applause.”
—Irving Berlin (18881989)
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