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.

Jochen Zeitz

As much as I like to explore the world, I explore music - from classical to rock.

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.

Herbie Hancock

It's very different from classical music. In classical music, you are playing something that is written by someone else.

Eric Bryant

It's all a part of working on your craft. There's a reason that fencing has always been included in a classical theatrical training program. . . It really has to do with two actors who are facing each other, and are interacting with each other and trying to tell a story.

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.

Alan Price

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

Chord Overstreet

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

Chick Corea

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

Chad Smith

There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.

Billy Unger

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

Beth Orton

I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.

Beth Orton

I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

Buddy Guy

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

Carlos Santana

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

Charles Caleb Colton

The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Charles Dickens

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you...

Charles Dickens

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

Charles Dickens

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.

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.

Indy Uhlenhopp

We were a whole different team since the first time we played them.

John Erwin

With the workouts we had, ... I was a little surprised we played as well as we did.

Franklin Gutierrez

Wow, it was a long season. I played in probably 80 games. But it works for me because I come over here in shape. I don't get tired at all. I'm still in shape.

John Tortorella

We're right where we want to be. You want to play the team that is supposed to win it. The result (Tuesday) was not there, but we have played better.

Bill Gardner

We're not going to win the section, but we played this team tough, and if we keep playing like this, we have a shot to make the playoffs.

John Stockton

We've got a pretty young team with a lot of sophomores and some new freshmen, but they've played together a lot,

Jeff Perreault

We're more prepared for it than the first time we played them.

Jason Blake

We're getting our first shots and the goalie was making the save and the second shot was sitting right there for us. I thought we played well. It just didn't go in for us tonight.

Rich Brooks

We're a young team, and we played like it,

James Garner

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Liam Hemsworth

As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends.

Daisy Ridley

Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Margaret Spellings

I'm encouraged... we're on the right track, especially with younger students,

Ian Mckellen

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Ruth Rendell

I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.