KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Quotes for topic: Classical


Share this page on

Showing 211-220 of 262 quotes in the topic Classical

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

~Eberhard Weber

Topics: Am Classical Classical Music Contemporary Lover Music Music Lover Necessarily Old Old Stuff Stuff I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm a great believer that actors are very similar to session musicians. You wouldn't ask a session musician, 'How do you play jazz,' and then, 'How do you play classical?' They just do it, because if they don't do it, they don't eat.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Actor Ask Because Believer Classical Eat Great Great Believer How Jazz Just Just Do It Musician Musicians Play Session Similar Then Very You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.

~Eddie Van Halen

Topics: Age America Brother Classical Except Good Guitar Holland Just Lessons Lived Moved Never Piano Piano Lessons Really Six Thing Took Typical

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

~Eddie Van Halen

Topics: Age Classical Guitar Holland Lessons Lived Never Piano Piano Lessons Six Took

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.

~Edgar Winter

Topics: Almost Also Blues Certainly Classical Common Dramatic Frankenstein Fusion Had Heavy Heavy Metal Image Jazz Love Metal Music Power Primarily Rock Rocker Runs Thought Thread Through Very

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Any Carry Classical Does English Even Explanation Few Honor Know Language Latin Load Meaning Means Modern Most Much Old People Require Seem Spelling Spoken Think Unchanged Word Words Written

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Believe Classical Economists Economy Ethic Greeks Innovation Nothing Offset Pull Some Them Thrift Through Virtues Work Work Ethic

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Bent Classical Decline Economists Employment Labour Large Large Part Lay Output Part Supply Thus

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.

~Edward Witten

Topics: Change Classical Einstein Gravity History Long Long History Might Possible Quantum Speculation Theory Unlike

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Why a musician loves playing jazz or classical music or what makes them happy, and why an artist likes to paint - it's so hard to actually put into words what that feeling is of joy that we get, but that is what I get: a feeling of joy when the camera is rolling, even if I'm doing something that is not joyous.

~Elisabeth Moss

Topics: Actually Artist Camera Classical Classical Music Doing Even Feeling Get Happy Hard Jazz Joy Joyous Likes Loves Makes Music Musician Paint Playing Put Rolling Something Them Why Words

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular Authors

Lord Byron Epictetus W. C. Fields Mitch Hedberg H. P. Lovecraft Og Mandino Lucius Annaeus Seneca Alfred Lord Tennyson

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1940 - John Lennon

1973 - Simon Sinek

1709 - John Clayton

1782 - Lewis Cass

1879 - Max Von Laue

1884 - Helene Deutsch

1890 - Samuel Hoffenstein

1892 - Ivo Andric

1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva

1899 - Bruce Catton

Birthdays on October 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Anger Cool Education Famous Food Happiness Patience Respect