Classical Quotes

639 quotes by 529 authors

I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I… — William Shatner
I am a classical fan. I like Debussy a lot, so I was trying to learn it on the piano. I've learned like a third… — Charlie Day
I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films… — Gaspard Ulliel
I think there's an underlying insecurity to Bush with a rather classical genesis - namely his being the eldest son of a famous father. I… — Robert Draper
All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.There was… — Patrick Stewart
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,… — Edward Abbey
We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further… — Errol White
The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to… — Stephen Leacock
I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all… — Jamie Foxx
A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen. — George Steiner
I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can run… — Sylvester Stallone
I got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music.You should know a bunch of music and have respect for… — Bruno Mars
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not… — Michel Foucault
I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what… — Neil Gaiman
I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around. — Eva Green
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. — Brian Greene
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. — Cyril Connolly
'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean. — Francis Ford Coppola
I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to… — Penelope Cruz
I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down. — Novak Djokovic

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