Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joshua Bell

As far as doing TV, I do think there's a big audience out there that could enjoy classical music, but they don't know how to find it, and sometimes by doing different things... crossover things probably make up about 5% of what I do.

Big Sean

As a crew, G.O.O.D. Music is taking it to levels that really haven't been done collectively. Kanye is someone who knows how to make classic albums, a true thinker. He got me in the mindset of being a true thinker and always planning out every move you got going.

They pay me to wear it, and I wear it. You don't sweat as much as in the classic shirts. You don't feel the heat on the court.

They do weave reproductions of classic tapestries, but they're also creating new tapestries.

They are back, classic 1970s-style Brawley Seismic Zone swarms.

Gertrude Stein

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

Ian Fleming

Shaken and not stirred.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.

Gregory Maguire

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

Ian McLagan

What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.

I decided that instead of flailing in classic skis, I would just learn how to shoot.

Emanuel Ungaro

I am able to do normal things, classical if you want.

Cuban baseball, Olympic and world champion, was always questioned because it didn't face professionals. And look, they reached the Classic final.

Cuba has shown the world that we have our heart in baseball. This classic is a historic event. We are not professionals. We don't get paid to play. But we ranked second, well deserved. I don't like losing. But I think we have shown a lot.

Mark Shapiro

ESPN Classic is going through a transition. They're thirsty to put today's news in its proper historical sports context ... History defines sports. Without that context, today's news wouldn't be as grand.

Anne Fortier

Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman.

Sir Mix-a-Lot

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

Herbie Hancock

I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got exposed to jazz.

Cassie Steele

I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music. A lot of the songs, growing up, I was into writing dark stories and poems, and one day I started putting melodies to them.

It would mean a lot to me. I would love to win this Classic because it means I would get to fish another one.

The zeitgeist right now is instability, where the classical political constellations that we used to rely on are no longer there.

Beth Grant

The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are different from 'Donnie Darko.' Look at the classics I've been in: 'No Country for Old Men'... 'Little Miss Sunshine'... 'Rain Man' was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that?

Bruce Beutler

In college, I had an early introduction to classical genetics from Professor Dan Lindsley, also an extraordinary teacher who influenced me greatly.

Italo Calvino

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

With a lot of classic programming, it's not airing anywhere. It's just collecting digital dust. Anything the studios make is gravy.

We've had some reporters ask, 'Why the public hearings? Why do we do them?' This is the classic example.

You got some wind up there. And how many January days do you get temperatures of 60 early in the morning? That's a sign of how unusual the storm was. It was not your classic nor'easter.

Terry Teachout

Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz.

Charles Rosen

Except for recordings made by famous tenors, the emphasis in classical recording has for the most part recently been on the work, and even more on the composer-the performer being spotlighted as the composer's most accomplished representative.

Joshua Roman

There's a great energy and drive that takes precedence in a lot of rock and pop. It's about making a strong visceral connection. That's something that I think great classical music can have, too.

Serena Williams

I like to wear classic silhouettes and add a punch to it.

Michael Cera

I spend most of my time catching up on classic comedy - things you absolutely have to see.