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Creativity Quote by Caroline Corr

"I'm not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me"

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There is a quiet kind of confidence in admitting you are not the best at something - especially when your job description practically begs the public to assume you are. Caroline Corr, speaking as a working musician, punctures the myth of the self-contained virtuoso. The phrasing is deliberately casual: "hottest tuner on the planet" borrows the language of hype and celebrity, then aims it at the unglamorous micro-skill of tuning. It is self-deprecation with a purpose: it lowers the temperature on ego and raises the stakes on professionalism.

The intent is pragmatic. Instruments drift, rooms change, touring is chaos; tuning is both science and ritual. By saying she "normally get[s] someone to come out", Corr frames expertise as a team sport. The subtext is respect for specialists and for the audience. She is not confessing incompetence; she is signaling priorities. Her value is in performance, feel, musical leadership - the human factors listeners actually register - and she is willing to outsource the technical calibration that protects those moments.

Culturally, the line lands as an antidote to romantic suffering-artist narratives and to the modern expectation that creatives must also be their own technicians, engineers, and brands. It's a small statement about labor: good music is rarely the product of solitary genius. It's the product of taste plus infrastructure, and the smartest artists know when to call in the person who lives for the details.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Corr, Caroline. (2026, January 17). I'm not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-not-the-hottest-tuner-on-the-planet-so-i-42327/

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Corr, Caroline. "I'm not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-not-the-hottest-tuner-on-the-planet-so-i-42327/.

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"I'm not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-not-the-hottest-tuner-on-the-planet-so-i-42327/. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.

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Caroline Corr (born March 17, 1973) is a Musician from Ireland.

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