Classical Quotes

639 quotes by 529 authors

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it. — Colin Greenwood
I'm going to have classical piano lessons next. — Colin Greenwood
In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement. — Karen Kain
Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a dream come true.… — Karen Kain
I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a… — Graeme Murphy
I like to listen the blues and some classical. — Peter Tork
SeÃ¡n Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority while… — Joe McNally
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. — Jan Garbarek
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. — Lee Konitz
Well-referenced, with numerous quotations from renowned Egyptologists and classical scholars, Acharya's penetrating research clearly lays out the very ancient pre-Christian basis of modern Christianity. Those… — Robert M. Schoch
The Beatles have a deeper appreciation of all music. There's a humor, there's a Broadway sense, and later on, the Indian stuff came in. The… — Jimmy Vivino
Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful… — Michael Tilson Thomas
Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human. — Michael Tilson Thomas
Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in… — Allen Ginsberg
... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity,… — Noam Chomsky
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression… — Frances McDormand
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far… — Charles A. Murray
You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off. — Michael Gambon
As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always… — Lesley Garrett
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never… — Alasdair Gray

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