Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ji-Hae Park

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

Trevor Rabin

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.

Stieg Larsson

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Herbie Hancock

I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music,

Aleksey Igudesman

I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

Kunal Nayyar

I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

Kristan Higgins

I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter's played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love.

Diane Jacobowitz

He is expert in classical music. He knew the composers and knew their lives. He read their biographies. He knew the subtly of their music. And he knew about modern music and all the modern composers.

Rachel Platten

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

Bruce Kovner

It has been great fun to find these manuscripts and pull them together into this collection. I trust that what we are doing at the school will make it possible for Juilliard students and scholars to delve into the compositional processes of these great composers and share them with the rest of the world.

Elena Dubinets

The majority of the composers in Icebreaker III are not known outside their region.

Sivamani

I know I have experience, having worked with the likes of legendary composers like Ilaiyaraaja. And, I've been long enough with my dear friend A. R. Rahman, and we've collaborated on several musical works. All this gives me confidence.

John Eaton

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

Shaan

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.

George Crumb

An interesting practice in music since the atonal period of the Viennese composers has been the widespread use of a few tiny pitch cells.

Brian Eno

With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

Douglas Carter Beane

Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. They are the finest of the revue composers - their stuff is so good and so strong.

Robert Morris

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Stephen Colbert

Don't be afraid to make things up. Never fear being exposed as a fraud. Experts make things up all the time. They're qualified to.

Steve Hutchinson

Going into the playoffs, the so-called experts said that there were 12 teams in the playoffs and out of everyone, we had the worst defense. Well, you can't play any better than that, can you?

Bill Collins

It has been a great year so far. It's been a real joy to see how our students have benefited from these experts in their fields.

Merrill Goozner

It is ludicrous that the FDA could not find highly qualified experts in these fields who did not have ties to the manufacturer.

Peter Goldmark

I went to the government to seek help from our counterterrorism experts, ... The counterterrorism officials then in the White House refused to give us any help.

Keith Ellison

Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.

Tony Russa

He was underrated by the so-called experts. When we got him, people in the American League called me telling what an impact player we had. He isn't underrated by people wearing a uniform.

Tom White

He has the expertise and he was interested in doing it.

Rex Stout

Opinions, from experts, cost money.

Amilcar Arroyo

I was lucky I met her. But if not, I knew I had to marry somebody else.

Mariangee Bogado

I was looking at the scoreboard a lot. I knew I had the no-hitter, but I think it's all mental. I was just thinking about getting everyone out.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Know thyself""? If I knew myself I'd run away

H. Hunt

I think it could have been better, though. We started out and could have done better than what we did. We knew (we could press).

Tamba Hali

I think in the back of his mind, he knew we were coming. He still had to do his job, but he knew we were coming.

Joan Bonvicini

It all started with our practices. We knew that we just had to be tougher.

Matt Thornton

He wanted to make sure he knew I can compete, for me to pitch like he knows I can, like I know I can.

J. Taylor

He didn't know what was going on, he just knew something was going on.

Daron Wildermuth

He can shoot it. We knew he'd get some points. We just tried to limit him.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Rob James-Collier

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

William J. Clinton

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

W. S. Merwin

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Omar Sharif

Picasso: Masterworks From the Museum of Modern Art.

Ken Hill

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

Ken Hill

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Ken Hill

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Jake Brebes

I would say now we?re shooting toward putting the music out in a professional way.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Andrew Lack

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Graham Elliot

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.