Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wright

The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre if it were well-acted and imaginatively presented.

M. H. Abrams

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

Birdy

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

Herbie Hancock

At first I sounded like any stiff classical musician, trying to play that stuff.

Frances McDormand

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 in the theatre.

Tom Scholz

I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today if I tried. I still enjoy that stuff, and I think I naturally gravitate towards the classical licks; in fact, I know that I do. I gravitate towards the classical licks that I heard by famous old composers.

Frank Black

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

Joshua Bell

As far as doing TV, I do think there's a big audience out there that could enjoy classical music, but they don't know how to find it, and sometimes by doing different things... crossover things probably make up about 5% of what I do.

Steve Robinson

Ray's passion, vision and devotion to WFMT fueled its growth for over 40 years, ... The success we enjoy today as one of the premier classical music radio stations in the world is due in large part to his uncompromising standards and unending enthusiasm for the station.

Kathleen Blanco

We have no counts whatsoever, but we know many lives have been lost.

Nathan Parsons

I probably use email the most. I dunno if that counts as an app. I try to stay off my electronics as much as possible. Real life is happening all around you; you're better off just being a part of it.

Hayley Wickenheiser

We're expecting to go over and win the gold and defend the gold medal. Anything less would be disappointing for us. We know what we have to do. It's just a matter of doing it on the day when it counts the most.

Mike Rucker

They started off hot. But what counts is the fourth quarter and how you finish. It's not how you start; it's how you finish.

J. Hoover

It's a big game. Delhi-Walton, whether it counts in the division or not, it's a big one.

Manuel Pellegrini

It was important to get an early goal and it was also an away goal which counts for double and could be very important for the second-leg.

Michael Ignatieff

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

Richard Leakey

Baboons, for example, live on the ground as well as in the trees, where they try to get hold of birds' eggs. What counts is the right balance.

Luis Aragones

Raul is an important player for this side just like other experienced players in the squad. Great players always rise to the occasion when it counts and can provide psychological support to the other players in the side.

Chris Carter

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

Charlie Parker

You've got to learn your instrument.

Charles Mingus

Everything I do is Mingus.

Edgar Meyer

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

Bill Frisell

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

Ben Jaffe

They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.

Dexter Gordon

Jazz to me is a living music.

David Sanborn

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

Jonny Gomes

Yes, he's kicked back. He has a lot of positive thoughts, positive things to say.

Ned Riley

It seems like there was massive indifference on the part of buyers, ... There were positive macro developments, but the market didn't react, and then program trading kicked in during the last hour.

Mark Bryant

A lot of people are still on vacation right now, the summer doldrums have kicked in, and everyone is waiting on Friday's payrolls number, ... There's just not going to be much liquidity until then.

Samantha Knapp

They got nervous and kicked him out and told him to find his own ride home.

Victor Koo

Youku Tudou kicked off 2014 in a positive direction. Mobile has become the number one screen for Youku Tudou, and we are the undisputed leader in all of the important mobile video traffic metrics.

Dr. House

Sorry, I missed that. White count's been down since the Ricky Martin concert. Some cholo kicked me in the head.

Ronald White

Ten to 12 months ago she was my legal ward. I put her through school, but she stopped going so I kicked her out of the house,

Jerome Harrison

We really kicked their butts all the way 'til the end.

Flip Saunders

We didn't have the step they did. They kicked our butts every which way.

Chico Hamilton

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

Chico Hamilton

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

Chico Hamilton

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Chico Hamilton

I don't dig staying in one groove.

Chick Corea

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what Kind of Blue did.

Chick Corea

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

Edith Wharton

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Eddie Murphy

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

Eddie Izzard

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Edward Brooke

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Steven Blair

We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.

Idina Menzel

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

Poe Ballantine

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

Marcelo Balboa

I never really studied the game. I just watched tape of who I had to cover. That was my studying.

Flea

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

Maria Semple

This is Seattle. We're supposed to have superior taste.

Mark Mulder

This isn't how the story was supposed to end,

Mike Fratello

That's what you're supposed to do. Win games.

Larry Brown

That's fun. That's the way we're supposed to play.

Richard Barrett

You're supposed to get out of a wheelchair. They want you to get up and get around.

Calandra Terry

You're not supposed to put anything extraneous in the invitations, not even a footnote, but you can put whatever you want to in your newsletter. You can make it informative, but fun, like your wedding.

Jason Gedrick

You're not supposed to get rattled in poker; you're supposed to remain poker-faced!

John Bennett

You only come to those conclusions if you don't understand how the whole thing is supposed to work.

Jennifer Shoaf

We've surprised a lot of people. We've even surprised us. We weren't supposed to be here.

Alan Jackson

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

Alan Greenspan

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

Alan Arkin

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

Alan Arkin

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

Alan Ball

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

Al Roker

I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement.

Al Lewis

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

Akshay Kumar

On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!

Akshay Kumar

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.