Classical Quotes

639 quotes by 529 authors

I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about… — Itzhak Perlman
I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent… — Jeffrey Eugenides
It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien… — Steve Vai
Parents...rigidly monitor the selection of television programs...and other forms of entertainment for your family. Foster in your homes a love of knowledge through uplifting literature;… — David B. Haight
A real gold standard is thoroughly consistent with [classical] liberal principles and I, for one, am entirely in favor of measures promoting its development. — Milton Friedman
Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles. — Quinlan Terry
Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that… — Laura Mvula
When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but… — Annabelle Selldorf
And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. — Ninette de Valois
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite… — Peter Adamson
A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I… — Zedd
I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my… — Marianne Faithfull
Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that… — J. B. Jackson
I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur. — Jane Siberry
Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong, — Neil Turok
Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'Ãªtre of the [New Deal programs].… — Richard Allen Epstein
Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression. — Ludwig von Mises
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets. — Richard Allen Epstein
I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art. — Serj Tankian

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