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.

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.

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.

Jack Bruce

I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.

Alicia Keys

It's perfect for me, ... It's a period piece, and I'm totally in love with period pieces. And that it is about this woman who was a classical prodigy, who grew up in Harlem, where I grew up, who is obviously half-black and half-white, like I am, who studied classical (music), like I did. But the twist comes in for me, obviously, because the time period had so much tension.

Kim Gandy

We told him what he needed to hear. And I think our messages were received. The vice president shared some of his ideas, listened to ours and offered to have an ongoing dialogue.

Giulio Tremonti

I listened to them and I can now say that I have no objections.

Genderen Stort

Nothing that we proposed was being listened to. The demonstrators on the square wanted something impossible.

John Corbett

It's pretty much all I've listened to since then.

Scott Savin

I walked around and listened to what people said they wanted.

Rick Carrillo

They didn't listen. If they would've listened to me in the corner, they would've won.

Kurt Opsahl

They have listened to us but there's a lot of resistance.

Julie Kenner

I've never listened to any of my audiobooks, but I'm very, very happy that they've received such excellent feedback from readers!

Marge Piercy

It you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening

P. C. Cast

Aye, wumman, if it's truly romantic, then it must be Scottish,

Michael Scott

I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.

Melissa George

My background is Scottish.

Michelle Gomez

I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement - I just happen to be Scottish.

Chris Browne

But I still wish I was out in the sunshine with the Scottish team.

Gordon Strachan

I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today.

Paul Gallagher

I'm in the facial-hair phase of my career.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

Taylor Hawkins

I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.

Ralph Kiner

Solo homers usually come with no one on base.

Paul Desmond

It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo,

Lou Ferrigno

Now because he saved the day they're making another solo Hulk movie after the second Avengers comes out,

John Legend

For me I'm actually doing what I normally do when I do my solo thing and the other thing is actually more new to me.

Brandon Boyd

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently.

Peter Coyote

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

Max McKeown

Strategy is not really a solo sport - even If you're the CEO.

Tommy Bolin

Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.

Ron Paul

I would think they're going to study it a little more closely.

Richard Baxter

We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

Richard Baxter

Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.

Rick Warren

It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.

Rudy Giuliani

Quit Iraq Study Group to avoid politicizing it.

Rodney Mullen

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.

Charles Handy

This is just a preliminary study of this facility,

John Gresham Machen

In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies

Rory McCann

I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I even trained myself to be a tree surgeon.

Tory Burch

I never go out during the day without sunglasses.

Calista Flockhart

I just can't eat without my sunglasses,

Bob Dylan

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

Jessica Sanchez

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.