Top 1200 Classical Liberalism Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

When you look at classical structures, they're often linked to literature, music, or a poem. They were constructed by master builders, which means it's not something standard that you can copy.

By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.

Occasionally, if I'm in doubt over specific Indian classical or raga-related questions, I'll find myself going back to my lesson tapes or my father's recordings.

I do not like to call myself a Liberal, because there is so much that is wrong with liberalism. I also do not like to call my a Conservative for exactly the same reason. The fact that the theater of conservativism today seems to be such a haven for such an abundance of small minded, non-thinking, irrationalists is however making it very difficult for me to not adopt a harder stance.

The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual.

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not.

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.

When you look at Istanbul, from Byzantium to the present day, it's striking how it has always been a city of the people, with a political voice, right from its early classical history.

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

Im 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.

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.

Contrary to popular opinion, classical music does not have to be enjoyed amid exclusive circles, there need not be any snobbishness attached to it. It's there for everyone. I play for the people.

I really hope that I can continue to do classical theatre - it's something I am really passionate about and I'd love to explore.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs. Over there, everyone still learns to play, and the great composers don't seem alien.

If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn't worked, and he can modify it. But if Obama got his formative ideas when he was very young, and if they are the result of his traumatic relationship with his father, then they are built into his psyche.

Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

There was a time when people were afraid that film music would totally displace classical music.

The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government.

to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so I also love rock.

Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.

Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of Germanistics and Classical Philology during the summer term of 1939.

[Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress.

I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical background and upbringing was very much a mix.

Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.

Sports men and women need hip replacements. It was all those years of classical ballet and forcing turn-outs. It can be quite detrimental to your body.

The tasks of paleontologists and classical historians and archaeologists are remarkably similar - to excavate, decipher and bring to life the tantalizing remnants of a time we will never see.

With 'The Conjuring,' I really wanted to create classical cinema-style film-making, pure cinema as it were.

The contemporary programs in London are harder and much more damaging for the body. With classical ballet you are relaxed mentally because it's what you learnt, but I want to push myself.

People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics.

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

The terms 'progressive' and 'liberal' have virtually nothing to do with each other anymore. And if you are a classical liberal, you certainly aren't a leftist.

No, playing online is an entirely different experience and classical chess events never happen online.

Guided By Voices was huge when I was 16. Then I got into the Beatles, then classical music, Beethoven.

I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

I have always wanted to tell stories. Even as a classical dancer, I revel in telling stories through my dance.

You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

I think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their intelligence. They wanted to create a musical explosion, to blow the crowd away.

An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half.

I love it that my father is such a classical musician and such a traditionalist, and at the same time has had a wild life and a crazy time.

Music in Africa is perceived so differently than Western classical music - it's language and storytelling.

In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!

I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.

I enjoy every role that I do. But I would love to do a dance-based film. It can even be the biopic of a great Indian classical dancer. I want to push boundaries.

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.