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.

Benjamin Levy

I listen to a lot less classical music today than I used to,

Kyle MacLachlan

I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors.

Darryl Jenkins

I wouldn't put my retirement money on the line for something like this, ... It is a very difficult environment for startups right now, with jet fuel so high. That scares investors away.

Will Ferrell

I would tend to shy away from that, only because hosting those type of things is an extremely difficult task. I'd rather watch at home.

Allan Kaplan

I would say that this a minor loss for the industry. I would say this is going to make it more difficult for them in their negotiations in terms of a settlement.

Kevin Sutherland

Just the streak in itself is amazing, ... I don't think people realize how difficult it is to make that many in a row. That shows how hard he plays every time he tees it up.

Jeremy Foley

I think it's a huge home-court advantage. I think the fact that everybody is on top of the court, the job the students have done making that a difficult place to play ... people say how loud it is in there. It's a different environment.

Mike Sanford

I think it helped us to learn more about him and what his strengths are. It was very difficult (with the injury).

Jack Riley

It can be difficult to find people who live in a precinct, with schedules and time constraints and all.

Reggie Collier

It can be difficult at times, especially during the season when you're so focused to be prepared for Saturday. I tell kids all the time to enjoy it while you can.

John Pierce

He'd be finding it very difficult to survive outside dressed like that,

Mark Rechtin

He could pretty much pick up a musical instrument and play.

Umberto Eco

The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.

Ike Turner

Piano's really my instrument ,and that's what they'll see when I get to Tokyo this time. They never saw me play the piano.

Nhat Hanh

Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.

Mother Teresa

All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.

Satyajit Ray

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

Logan Lerman

When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.

Bobby McFerrin

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Steven Taylor

I will have it operated on as soon as possible now, and get back as quickly as I can.

Bobby Martin

He's been a real smooth operator for us here lately.

Graeme Souness

He will have his operation tomorrow and he will be out for three months.

Robertson Davies

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Zola Jesus

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

William Patterson

In a special operations mission, a routine mission, if you're detected on the way to the target, you may as well turn around and go home. You failed.

Sarah Davis

There was a problem with a refinery that wasn't operating fully.

Maurice Luque

That's the end of the search, unless we get a missing-person report. Then it would be more of a recovery operation than a rescue.

Mike Jacobs

It's in the realm of operating systems that the most troublesome problems exist,

Andy Weir

I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.

Ray Stevens

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Donald Rupe

It was originally more like a concert. We've turned it into a theatrical production.

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

Julie Regan

We were originally scheduled to present it, but we need more time. We're still writing it.

John Romano

One will get more than what they originally bargained for, I guess.

Cheech Marin

The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.

Kevin Rahm

My intent was to go to law school... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.

Katie McGrath

I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn't know any actors. I never thought it was a viable job. It wasn't until I was on 'The Tudors' that I realised it was a possibility.

James Nesbitt

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

Douglas Adams

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

Ruben Studdard

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

Sara Bareilles

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

Rebecca De Mornay

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

Tracie Bennett

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

Robert Glasper

If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview.

Mike Love

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

Mandy Moore

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

Ellen DeGeneres

I've learned 2 things about tv. It's always easier with vodka & SOME OF THE BEST SINGERS ARE FROM THE PHILIPPINES

Nate Ruess

I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Bob Woodward

He made the point, which is right: I should tell him more. More is better. Sooner is better.

Elian Gonzalez

I know that you're scared. This must be frightening, but this will be over very soon and you will feel much better. I'm going to take you to Poppy.

Herman Edwards

I'm not listing him as anything right now because I don't know what the tests are. I'm not a doctor. As soon as I know, I'll let you know.

Kristen Staab

To me, the sooner the better. At least with the trial it will all be over.

Don Temeyer

It's probably too soon to say how we'll do it.

Silvan Shalom

It is very, very important to stop them, and the sooner the better,

David DeJesus

It's frustrating, but I just want to get better as soon as possible.

Gregg Overman

That's a 'no-later-than' date. It could be sooner than that.

Marcelo Balboa

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

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.

Flea

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

The best university is the university of life.

Vince Young

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

Ken Robinson

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

Peter Cook

I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.

Paul Keating

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

H. Judd

This is the only university I've been to that doesn't have campus-wide recycling. In a way it's embarrassing.

Derek Bok

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.

Michael Bennet

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Seth Greenberg

Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.