Top 1200 Classic Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.

My dad was into classic rock and R&B, which I originally started in. And then my mom did the country.

I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.

I agree cars become classic with age and you never know which ones are going to be in vogue.

When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

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

I love every single genre from documentaries, horror, comedy, drama, '80s, classic, I have it all.

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.

I'm from Kenner, Louisiana, where music is played for every occasion in life. There's music for being born, there's music for dying... It's just natural. Families get really good because they play a lot together.

I like the old, classic scary movies. I love 'Psycho,' 'The Sixth Sense,' and 'Poltergeist.'

I told my father I wanted to act, and he stared renting all these classic films for me to watch.

So what's happening with the audio/visuality, for the first time we are doing the music - the people who would come to the concert love the music - they loved him and loved his music - for the first time in concert it's not only the music. Now it's time to know the man. We know the music, but what was the man like?

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.

It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.

It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.

I think there's a difference between the type of folk music that people put into the box of "folk music" and then there's the kind of folk music that I aspire to and am in awe of, and that is the kind of folk music where it's very limited tools - in most cases a guitar, in a self-taught style that is idiosyncratic and particular to that musician.

For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

I discovered the idea of feminism when I watched the film '10 Things I Hate About You.' It's a classic.

My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.

We just forced them into tough shots that whole overtime. It was a classic five minutes that we needed.

I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

Jimi Hendrix is a classic example of a player in which everything he did, it was all in his hands.

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

If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'

I think my style is classic - I like wearing jeans and a white button-up shirt.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

I don't want to sound too carried away, but from what I've seen, 'Bingo Long' is going to be a big one. A classic.

Wayne Messam does not have any financial problems and is a classic American Success Story.

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

The show is coming from the music. I get on the stage with the band, and I communicate with my musicians, and the music that we create and all that is coming out of us. The music is making the show and the music is creating the atmosphere, so if you close your eyes and listen and feel what it is that's coming out of the speakers, that's the whole point.

The thing is, I knew from the very first audition that I did not fit the classic 'X Factor' criteria.

I like timeless and classic pieces with an interesting and modern twist. And I love a little funk!

I'm a classic cheddar man, I really do like it, though I don't mind a good Stilton or blue cheese.

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music, and fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts.

I think that cheap music often does make you dream more than more serious music, whether that's serious music by Beethoven or Miles Davis or Pink Floyd... if the Floyd ever did serious music, which I seriously doubt.

I think a season of 'Atlanta' bounces back between classic sitcom structure and genre movies.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Trends keep changing but the more classic designs never go out of style.

I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative.

The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.

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

Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music. I don't know anything else, I think about music before I go to sleep and it just really is everything that I am.

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

John Legend is, in my opinion, classic. He is one of the best finds that has come along in a long time.

Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

Dave Duerson had classic pathology of CTE and no evidence of any other disease.

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool music, but I know that I don't make cool music - so it's kind of funny!

'Street Legal' is like a cult classic. It's pretty cheesy at times, but you learn to embrace it.

I grew up on classic Nintendo, which was amazing. My best friends were hardcore into it.

Every work is completely different. Sometimes the music is first, sometimes it's parallel, and sometimes the music is after. There's no rule. Music goes differently to your emotions. With music you can create different spaces and feelings easier than you can with the visual - maybe not easier, but in a way, it's more seductive.

I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.

Performance and music are inexorably tied together. And hell, I'll watch Brittany's Toxic music video all day. But there's a difference between that and listening to Leo Kottke play guitar. One is entertainment. The other is Music.