Tune

Famous quotes containing the word tune:

    “If you will play from a copy of a tune that is choppy,
    You’ll get all my applause.”
    —Irving Berlin (1888–1989)

    “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 O, sick children of the world,
    Of all the many changing things
    In dreary dancing past us whirled,
    To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,
    Words alone are certain good.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)