Top Classical Quotes
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Theodore White
In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.
Lorin Maazel
It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.
Jim Sullivan
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.
James Loeb
They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.
Buddy Rich
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Mikhail Baryshnikov 
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Deborah Cox 
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Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
Sylvester Stallone 
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Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.
Alan Price
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I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.
Anne Dudley
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It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.
Hjalmar Schacht
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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
George Saintsbury
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All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.
Jim Coleman
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When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.
Tom Glazer
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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
Vivien Leigh
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