Quotes with classical

  • We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
  • Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
  • Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.
  • The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, divine.
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  • Benny Green Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • William Hazlitt Anyone who has passed through 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.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Cyril Connolly Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Arthur Peacocke Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Samuel Johnson Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bruce Lee Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
    Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Branford Marsalis Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • George Orwell I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Anita Diamant I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Anne Dudley I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Benjamin Clementine I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Sylvester Stallone I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
    Sylvester Stallone
    American actor and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • Ben Harper If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Michel Foucault If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Harold Macmillan Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bjork Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Theodore Harold White Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
    Theodore Harold White
    American political journalist and historian (1915 - 1986)
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