Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I think it is still a classic 'show-me' stock.

George Thorogood

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

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

There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda.

Dan Harmon

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

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.

Hopefully, this one will be a little different. St. E's is up 2-1 on us, but we've got the hardware from the Diamond State Classic and hopefully we'll get the hardware from here.

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.

I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.

I don't consider this a comedic role. I consider it a serious contribution to one of the classic ballets. I'm not sure if everyone will see it that way.

Russell Baker

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

William Friedkin

The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.

Samuel L. Jackson

I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

Matt Reeves

Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was 'Godzilla' - the original movie was released less than 10 years after Hiroshima, and it's a classic in Japan.

Leatrice Eiseman

Particularly in high-end design, there was always that sensibility that they have continued to do: To keep it classic and understated.

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.

Danger Mouse

I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.

Leon Bridges

In the beginning, I was so inspired by the music. I had the option to make something modern with classic undertones, but I wanted to make something that was exactly like that old sound.

If you're talking classic Princeton-style offense, you're talking about using 30 seconds of the shot clock on every possession.

Steve Ballmer

If you look at the dollars, everything about our prices are quite different than classic enterprise software.

Sadaharu Oh

In the future, I hope to have this Classic as the football World Cup, something many more countries can join.

I reached a major goal of mine today. It's a dream come true. It's a classic and a victory means a lot on such a difficult course.

Mandy Patinkin

I plan on doing at least one classic ever year. That's why I'm going to be doing Enemy of the People this summer in Williamstown.

Classic rock show tickets sell out in a matter of minutes. And they're willing to pay hundreds of dollars for seats.

Magglio Ordonez

I'm not that far away. Today I did much better. It was hard to work in the Classic because there was all this pressure on you to hit home runs, and that doesn't happen that way.

Mitch McConnell

I looked at his voting record, and it's considerably to the left of mine. And I don't consider myself a hard right conservative. So Rick is a classic Northeastern moderate Republican." ()

I looked around and realized what potential this classic could have just because of what is here in Detroit,

Cary Fukunaga

I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.

Brett Favre

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.

Rob Thomas

I like something with a classic touch. That way, it's easy.