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I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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.
— Matt Schulze
People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics
— Sidney Coleman
I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.
— Alton Tobey
Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy.
— Robert Greene
I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified.
— Willie Nelson
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
— Gregory Maguire
I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.
— Misty Copeland
In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.
— Mary Renault
Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood.
— Terry Teachout
When he is stripped of the Christian tunic and the classical toga, there is nothing left of the European but a pale-skinned barbarian.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.
— Felicity Kendal
The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.
— Charles Peguy
Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.
— Quinlan Terry
Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.
— Benjamin Zander
The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
— Andrew Bird
Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.
— Robert H. Schuller
I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.
— Kiana Tom
Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.
— Terence McKenna
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
— Arthur Miller
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
— Bonnie Raitt
I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.
— Charles Hazlewood
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
— Edmund Phelps
And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.
— Ninette De Valois
The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.
— Nigel Kennedy
Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird concerts when I was possibly too young.
— Planningtorock
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
— Cyril Connolly
In Classical Greek the word pathos was the same for both suffering and experience. Those Greeks knew a good joke when they heard one.
— Peter Straub
I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.
— Charles Bukowski
Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.
— Aleksey Igudesman
I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
— Frank Black
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.
— Boris Spassky
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.
— Christian McKay
Classical StudiesQuestion: What were the circumstances of Julius Caesar's death?
Answer: Suspicious ones — Richard Benson
Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.
— Luka Sulic
I like to listen the blues and some classical.
— Peter Tork
It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.
— Gustavo Dudamel
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
— George Orwell
I've learned what 'classical' means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.
— Gustav Holst
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
— Carly Simon
There was one point on which they were agreed: there was no way you could play classical music on a white piano.
— Pascal Garnier
Classical music can rock you!
— Ji-Hae Park
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
— Henry Flynt
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
— Harold Macmillan
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
— Maurice Sendak
Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.
— Richard P. Feynman
Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.
— Kenneth Clark
The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.
— Simon McBurney
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies
— Paulo Coelho
I love listening to classical music.
— Katharine McPhee
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.
— Seymour Stein
To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!
— Mika.
A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.
— Raymond Chandler
I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
— Joanna Newsom
It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
— Zubin Mehta
We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all.
— Stjepan Hauser
When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.
— Annie Parisse
As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A cough is the basic sign of inattention. Musicians never, in my experience, cough when playing in public.
— Charles Rosen
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
— Hugh Laurie
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
— Salvador Dali
If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.
— Michael Tilson Thomas
I had had a classical education prior to that.
— Skitch Henderson
The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.
— Frederic Bastiat
