Classical Quotes

639 quotes by 529 authors

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes. — Roger Scruton
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only… — Carl Jung
The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which… — F. F. Bruce
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical… — Michael Tilson Thomas
Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts. — Russell Brand
I love listening to classical music. — Katharine McPhee
I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax. — David Suchet
I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being… — Tom Baker
But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get… — Rick Wakeman
We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it will embrace, outside… — C. F. W. Walther
Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music. — Sonny Rollins
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard… — Mick Mars
I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. — Suzi Quatro
I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. — Mike Figgis
I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo… — Marc Ribot
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references… — Paul Watzlawick
My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He… — Pat Metheny
I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal… — Edgar Winter
There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what… — Andy Summers
A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and defeat is contained… — Joe Paterno

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