Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music,

We take pin stripes and classic madras and make it fun, young and hip. We get labeled preppy by being classic.

Hopefully, this one will be a little different. St. E's is up 2-1 on us, but we've got the hardware from the Diamond State Classic and hopefully we'll get the hardware from here.

Kristan Higgins

I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter's played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love.

I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.

He is expert in classical music. He knew the composers and knew their lives. He read their biographies. He knew the subtly of their music. And he knew about modern music and all the modern composers.

From the first moment I heard that there would be a Classic I started preparing for this. I've never been a part of such an important game like this.

For us, the Classic starts today and the rest is history.

Susan Hill

I was taught to whistle as a little girl by an undertaker. I used to sit in his workshop, watching him planing wood for the coffins, and he used to whistle all the time - and eventually I started whistling, too. I can whistle anything, particularly trumpet tunes from Classic FM.

Ted Cruz

I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

I grew up listening to a lot of classic rock, everything from the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin to Deep Purple and the Beatles.

John Tesh

I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wanted to be in a rock-and-roll band, and most of us were. But I also grew up with a lot of piano lessons and a lot of classical music training.

If this could be proven, then it would come under the classic definition of involuntary manslaughter.

Gloria Steinem

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

J. G. Ballard

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.

Big Smo

I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Southern rock, classic rock.

Blake Bailey

I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was a series of contemporary classics reprinted as a quality paperback.

Dmitry Medvedev

I do like classical music, and soft rock, and jazz, which I never listened to when I was 15. Now I like it. The older you get, the more tolerant you get, right?

Eve Best

If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.

With a lot of classic programming, it's not airing anywhere. It's just collecting digital dust. Anything the studios make is gravy.

Bat for Lashes

I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.

Brad Goreski

You can't go wrong mixing classic graphics in black and white. It's very Parisienne.

I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to put it together.

Aaron Paul

I drive a 1965 Shelby Cobra. I love classic muscle cars.

This really won't sink in for a while. We'll see this time and time again, you know, going back to all the classic tapes. Just to be part of this is something special.

The photos were taken at the three islands, North Island, South Island, and Stewart Island. There are a few good shots of a famous surf spot called Raglan - it's the longest surf left in the world and featured in the classic surf movie 'Endless Summer.' I also have a few of Clint's fishing boat, F/V Rachel, leaving the Port of New Zealand.

Aimee Bender

I developed a prejudice in high school that it was all going to be boring. That kind of teenage, why-do-I-have-to-read-these-goddamn-classics feeling. And then you discover that the classics are classics because they're lively. They don't stick around because they're boring. If they're boring, they go away.

Arlo Guthrie

I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite. My mother, a Martha Graham dancer, had a classical background; my father had a back-porch background.

Bill Callahan

To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of nowhere in Maryland. I'd drive out to places I'd never been, just to go and see it.

Michael Gambon

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

We've noticed that over time, it's the classic play patterns that really deliver on the promise that kids want. We saw that last year with Trivial Pursuit, which was the best-selling toy even in its 20th edition.

Arto Lindsay

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play.

We've had some reporters ask, 'Why the public hearings? Why do we do them?' This is the classic example.