Classical Quotes

639 quotes by 529 authors

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to… — Charles Rosen
The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition. — Charles Rosen
I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as… — Miroslav Vitous
I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates. — Black Francis
I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today,… — Misty Copeland
I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets. — Misty Copeland
I got the O.B.E because I represent England outside of England more...but thinking of me as an actor, I haven't done all the classical theatre,… — Charlotte Rampling
Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're a Shakespeare enthusiast.… — Bill Nighy
I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn't operate in… — Bill Nighy
There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I… — William Hazlitt
A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed… — James Joyce
Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity,… — Rollo May
Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content. — Robin G. Collingwood
The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it? — Robin G. Collingwood
On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the… — Raymond Williams
People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life. — Catherine Deneuve
My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'... — Gerhard Richter
In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has… — Todd Boyd
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The… — Max Planck

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