Classical Quotes

639 quotes by 529 authors

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all… — Rufus Wainwright
When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing. — Roger Waters
The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different… — Paul Weller
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. — Theodore White
I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I… — Warren Zevon
Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You… — John Zorn
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles… — Martin Filler
The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes… — Niels Bohr
Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill. — Sheri L. Dew
Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow… — Vladimir Nabokov
In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can… — C.S. Lewis
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one… — Donna Tartt
I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters… — Russell Kirk
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which… — Susan Sontag
There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to… — Robert M. Pirsig
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there. — Bruce Lee
I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies — Paulo Coelho
Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33") — John Cage
It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it? — Vera Nazarian

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