Top 1200 Classical Guitar Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

People wanted to do science outside of classical institutions like universities or big corporations, so we embraced it.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

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

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Maybe in 10 years,I'll only be doing "classical" comedy. Or crashing my car into trees.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

I like all good music - rock, pop, country, classical - and when you sit down to write, it all comes out.

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

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

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

I studied dance for about 15 years, various disciplines, with classical ballet as my primary.

One of the struggles that I have with classical music is the way one thinks about a recapitulation. There's always this idea of themes, and I have trouble with that.

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

My dad was a really good classical guitarist. He took lessons with a student of Andre Segovia.

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!

I think there are quite a few new Instro/Surf groups that are really great. The Mermen are good and there doing something different. The Space Cossacks, Penetrators, The Fathoms, I really like The Falcons from Canada, Mike Beddoes is a really fine guitar player. I like Nokie Edwards of The Ventures, who gave me a guitar lesson once when we were playing opposite them in 1962 at The Rose Garden Ballroom in Pismo Beach. That's were The Impacts started and got signed to Del Fi in 1962.

The classical art of spin bowling, how you should bowl in Test match cricket, is disappearing.

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

Classical dance forms and music are slowly going away. It is very important to impart these to children.

The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.

The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.

Before I got the desired effect in my voice, I trained in classical music under my father for several years.

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.

I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music.

I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.

I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.

Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.

I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play.

I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

I had been exposed to classical music my whole life; even before I was born.

Actually, I try different kinds of exercise. I do functional training, Zumba, classical dance and walking.

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

But in the Indian film industry, from the moment a child is born, he is taught music, he is taken for classical classes.

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

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.