Tune
A sound; a note; a tone.
A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air.
The state of giving the proper, sound or sounds; just intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune.
Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.
To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin.
To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
To sing with melody or harmony.
To put into a proper state or disposition.
To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.
To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum.
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Tune Quotations
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
Wayne Dyer
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allen
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Carl Jung
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
Samuel Beckett
You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.
Temple Grandin
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Timothy Leary
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
Marshall McLuhan
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
Hannah Arendt
Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
Ann Landers
If you're behind the times, they won't notice you. If you're right in tune with them, you're no better than they are, so they won't care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them.
Shel Silverstein
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.
Timothy Leary
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Samuel Butler
You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
Jack Kerouac
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
Galen Rowell
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
Phillips Brooks
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
Miguel De Cervantes
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
Erica Jong
While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.
Eric Butterworth
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
Billie Holiday
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
Bjork
When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.
Linda McCartney
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
Pope Paul VI
Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.
Ritchie Blackmore
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
Bruce Springsteen
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
Drums usually seem to tune themselves.
Levon Helm
If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why.
Corrine Brown
Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.
Bo Bennett
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Tune Translations
tune in Afrikaans is wysie, wys
tune in Dutch is in een stemming brengen, stemmen
tune in French is accorder, braquer
tune in German is abstimmen
tune in Italian is melodia
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