Top 1200 Greek Chorus Quotes & Sayings - Page 6
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
My first job was in pantomime; I was a chorus girl in 'Dick Whittington' at 16. I got the part by ringing the director daily to see if anyone had dropped out, and it paid off eventually, when I was cast as a rat!
Part of why I love Greek food so much is that it is simple, but it's unpretentious. It's authentic.
Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones.
I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.
I think we all know that world owes an enormous debt to Greece and the Greek people.
'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.
Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.
The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom.
The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.
The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.
People think the chorus is the hard part in 'Take on Me,' but they're wrong. The hard part was making the verses bounce.
I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.
I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.
You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.
If you listen to the first, second, and third chorus of a song, they don't sound the same. It's the same melody and all that, but what really happens is that the energy changes. It's all about getting the listener to keep his or her concentration.
I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.
Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
In a lot of African music, the singers are just singing whatever they feel at the time - because the instrumentation is repetitive, they can come and go as they please. That's how we approach it. Not verse-chorus-verse.
There were people who had sampled my voice from speeches when I was an Islamist and made them the chorus of pro-Islamist rap songs who then began talking about me as an apostate.
Americans want beauties, not me. I’m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where’s my feather up the ass? They think I’m sad, they’re dumb. I don’t connect to them
People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete.
The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.
I worked as a belly dancer at a Greek restaurant senior year in high school.
The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.
It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.
If you don't have a great chorus, write a good bridge first. I often do that and find I write good bridges.
The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.
Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
I have blonde hair and blue eyes, and whenever I tell people I'm Greek, they don't believe me.
When you're listening to club music, there's no reward. The reward isn't, 'Oh, here's the chorus, here's the lyric that makes sense.' You have to enjoy what it is. You have to enjoy that there's no conclusion.
Dudes I work with have to be like-minded to where I just hand them a beat that has a chorus and they can do with them what they gotta do. If they can't do that, I usually don't work with 'em.
The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.
Benjamin Franklin maintained that every star is a sun, and every sun nourishes a 'chorus of worlds' just like ours.
..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton
I was brought up on music hall, and at the same time, I was studying Greek at the age of 12.
It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.
When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap is about storytelling and requires extra effort to write.
There's something about making a song that everybody can sing and remember, and when you listen to it the first time, you already know the words by the second chorus, like you've always known the song. I'm obsessed with that idea.
I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.
I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?
Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.
Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy.
We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.
I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.
Since the Greek myths, the greatest stories are premised on the idea of, 'A stranger arrives.'
To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."
Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.
For a late snack, I'll throw some mixed nuts into greek-style yoghurt.
I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]
