Classical Quotes

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
Paulo Coelho

Religion, Art, Science

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
George Orwell

Education, Doubt, Whether

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard

Music, Thinking, Keep

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
Stevie Nicks

Birthday, Mom, Dad

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.
Stephen Hawking

Music, Enjoy, Opera

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson

Men, Quotation, Literary

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
Michel Foucault

Age, Power, Knowledge

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
William Hazlitt

Education, Fool, May

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
Satyajit Ray

Music, Age, Poetry

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
Vivien Leigh

Why, Training, Else

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
Vivien Leigh

Training, Theatre, Value

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
Tori Amos

Before, Old, Language

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
Tori Amos

Dangerous, Theme, Variations

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Ridiculous, Purity, Rigorous

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion, Human, Between

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Work, Learn, Themselves

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
Nina Simone

Music, Freedom, Important

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
Tony Blair

Music, Truth, Rock

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.
Julie Andrews

Love, Music, Focus

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.
Roger Waters

Guitar, Spanish

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
Billy Joel

Music, Education, Young

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Lost, Dance, Interested

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
Maurice Sendak

Love, Music, Great

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.
Neil Gaiman

Book, Writing, Loved

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
Sylvester Stallone

Eyes, Sense, Handsome

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.
Lorin Maazel

Music, Struggle, Confused

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
Norah Jones

Music, Far, Maybe

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
Boris Spassky

Work, Theatre, Chess

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
Barbra Streisand

Acting, Wanted, Started

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
Sylvester Stallone

Art, Romantic, Desire

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