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From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.
Cat Power

Love, Whatever, Gone

On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.
Ryan Adams

Trying, Wanted, Songs

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.
Lisa Scottoline

Smart, Dead, Write

I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.
Jessie Ware

Possible, Feminine

I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.
David Ginola

Money, Game, Hard

Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.
Michael Pitt

Nothing, Black, Fit

When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
Clifton Fadiman

Book, Before, Read

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
Dwight Yoakam

Music, Honest, Clean

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.
Kathy Valentine

Else, Sound, Album

For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.
Marc Almond

Good, Down, Play

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
Marc Almond

Great, Next, Songs

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.
Sherwood Boehlert

Government, Democracy, Through

My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process.
Steve Winwood

Goal, Same, Sometimes

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.
Brooke Burns

Alone, Dead, Break

I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.
Kurt Sutter

Character, Mistakes, Made

I think Bruno Mars is a great example of a great voice and classic songwriting with a twist that makes it contemporary. I think he's done a great job of it. I think Katy Perry has undeniable songs for what she does, for that pop market. And, if we're talking in the truly pop market, I would say those two.
Kara DioGuardi

Great, Job, Done

I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.
Nina Garcia

Love, Less, Modern

The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.
Robert Pozen

Time, Crazy, Hard

I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.
Roger Andrew Taylor

Against, Knew, Early

For me it's all about keeping things simple and feeling comfortable in what I am wearing. I prefer investing in classic well-tailored pieces.
Miranda Kerr

Simple, Feeling, Keeping

I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.'
Amanda Hocking

Nice, Book, Old

It was like a classic thing with Emma. So I walked in and I slammed the door and everything fell off the wall on the set. It was my second or third scene and I was so embarrassed and scared and so nervous about what everyone would say, but everyone just packed up laughing.
Dannii Minogue

Everything, Everyone, Off

Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me.
Jerry Lawler

Movies, Someone, Real

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
Haley Reinhart

Love, Music, Rock

I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.
Simon Winchester

Hero, Find, Value

Now the Kids Classic is one of the major fund-raisers for Children's Hospital. Since we started seven years ago, we've raised more than $1 million for the hospital.
Tom Kite

Children, Kids, Since

'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
Wendell Pierce

Proud, American, Wire

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
Frances McDormand

Rock, Hard, Metal

There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.
Mitchell Baker

Life, Made, Grateful

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