Quotes About Classical

Classical music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world.

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.

There's always been a slight twinge of some classical elements in our music.

I was brought up in a slightly older style. I don't play with my collar up.

The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading - the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.

To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!

And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error, to classical unreason, we must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled.

The great hospitals, houses of confinement, establishments of religion and public order, of assistance and punishment, of governmental charity and welfare measures, are a phenomenon of the classical period:

If there is, in classical madness, something which refers elsewhere, and to other things, it is no longer because the madman comes from the world of the irrational and bears its stigmata; rather, it is because he crosses the frontiers of bourgeois order of his own accord, and alienates himself outside the sacred limits of its ethic.

The circle of day and night is the law of the classical world: the most reduced bust the most demanding of the world's necessities, the most inevitable but the simplest of nature's legalities.

Exist? un anumit num?r de întreb?ri feminine clasice, pe care orice b?rbat le afl? mai devreme sau mai târziu în viaÈ›a sa, întreb?ri pentru care institutele de înv???mânt ar trebui s? preg?teasc? tineretul studios.

I love the theater and I particularly love the classical theater and I love doing Shakespeare. It pays the soul, but it doesn't pay the rent.

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

With Constant, the chief articulator of his generation's liberal ideas, we see the beginnings of classical liberalism's 'state-hatred,' which, after the 18th century's ambiguous attitude, marks its theory to the present day," noted modern libertarian and historian of classical liberalism Ralph Raico.

The equations are indifferent to the supposed freedom of human will. Some have taken this to mean that in a classical universe, free will would be an illusion. You are made of a collection of particles, so if the laws of classical physics could determine everything about your particles at any moment—where they'd be, how they'd be moving and so on—your willful ability to determine your own actions would appear fully compromised.

To relate a Beethoven sonata to the testicles is hardly in the style of traditional aesthetics.

It is now known to science that there are many more dimensions than the classical four. Scientists say that these don't normally impinge on the world because the extra dimensions are very small and curve in on themselves, and that since reality is fractal most of it is tucked inside itself. This means either that the universe is more full of wonders than we can hope to understand or, more probably, that scientists make things up as they go along.

Some magic is so old, it's hardly magic anymore.

Nothing about him looked particularly demonic, at least by classical standards. No horns, no wings. Admittedly he was listening to a Best of Queen tape, but no conclusions should be drawn from this because all tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

I was part of a very uncool group. It was a group that liked classical music. They were known as the Music School Gang or, less charitably, the Poof Gang.