Quotes About Classical

The most satisfying of languages, Latin.

It was fundamental to Plato, and to the mainstream of classical Greek philosophy after him, that men are created unequal; not merely in the superficial sense of inequality in physique, wealth or social position, but unequal in their souls, morally unequal. A few men are potentially capable of completely rational behaviour, and hence of correct moral judgment; most men are not.

The music of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann were amongst his favourites.

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor—

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.

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.

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.

Once when I felt a little bruised by censorship I sent through Herodotus's account of the battle of Salamis fought between the Greeks and Persians in 480 B.C., and since there were place names involved, albeit classical ones, the Navy censors killed the whole story.

There is a clarity of design that contributes mightily to the building's satisfaction. The harmony of design, with all the elements balanced in true classical form, is sheer elegance. At every stage horizontally and vertically there is a beginning, middle, and end, an introduction to the theme, a development of the theme, a recapitulation of the theme.

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

One could see that the ideas which the mediaeval artist and the mediaeval peasant (who had survived to cook for us in the nineteenth century) had of classical and of early Christian history, ideas whose inaccuracy was atoned for by their honest simplicity, were derived not from books, but from a tradition at once ancient and direct, unbroken, oral, degraded, unrecognisable, and alive.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

I'm adhering to the core of 2000 years of gastronomic history.

The only difference between death and love, one supposedly lasts forever, the other makes you think of classical music.

to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.