Top 1200 Classical Liberalism Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.

With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

When I was 16, I felt I might be left with some effeminacy because of all the dancing. I was so full of classical dance that I wanted to get away and do something else.

I was just moving around the globe, learning classical music and generally doing nothing. I was completely away from glitz and glamour and did not miss it at all.

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.

The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.

I'm an odd mixture. I'm a sort of Geordie punk who started in classical theatre. It means nobody ever knows quite where to put me, but I like that.

We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

I'm the product of the classical, old-fashioned European education that is broad-based. You want to get your degree in the world, you have to study all sorts of things.

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.

Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music... I like a lot of different things.

My father started me off on the guitar, and we learned classical guitar together.

It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

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.

I studied classical violin and voice until I was 18 and by then I had had my fill.

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.

I go to metal concerts as well as classical concerts, and I love both of them.

The training at Juilliard School is classical training, and it really makes one very versatile.

As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience.... Liberalism does not advocate change for its own sake, but for the sake of something better in the direction of what he regards as good, namely, the maximum of liberty consistent with a regard for all men and all interests -- the general happiness based on peace and justice.

My dad was my first influence. He played classical guitar and my uncle Ron played the blues.

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

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

I listen to anything country and anything classical. Two great extremes.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.

My training has been in Hindustani classical, and I have done a six-week course in English vocals at Berklee. The holistic learning has helped me a lot.

In the late 1960s, the New Classical economists saw the same weaknesses in the microfoundations of macroeconomics that have motivated me. They hated its lack of rigor. And they sacked it.

I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical program, so we did Chekov and Moliere and a lot of Shakespeare.

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.

I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so it's funny to make it as a rock star when we're 40 or whatever.

As much as I like to explore the world, I explore music - from classical to rock.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.

Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.

I didn't grow up with classical music. My father was a folk music singer.

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.

I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.