Quotes About Classic

I wanted to make a record that people could put on year after year after year, and it would never feel dated.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.

The Dodge Charger in the late '70s at Daytona, that looked like an awesome car.

There's a sort of eternal, indefinable 20th century quality to 'BTAS.' We never really pegged the decade, but it's anytime in the 20th century, so I often harkened back to things from the '40s or '50s.

I always wanted to be involved with music that would stand the test of time, being on one of those definitive things that you have to have listened to at some point.

Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that I grew up listening to and that first drew me in. And then I always try to find somewhere for a bluesy guitar sound, because that's also what I love.

If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

French designers are classic, chic, and traditional.

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.

I'm totally devoted to '30s cinema.

I hadn't read Dickens for a while and doing 'Bleak House' was great.

A classic man is a distinguished man. He cares about taste and his craft. He's all about the simple model that I live by - eat, drink, be swanky, and have fun getting the job done. He makes sure that he's excellent in all things and that he cares about his neighborhood immensely.

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.

When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

Pesto is such a great standard. It's so simple to make and always tastes good.

The thing with 'The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo' is that is it's like an Agatha Christie plot, and an investigating journalist is also a classic character.

Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

Cornelius Ryan, whose A Bridge Too Far remains the classic narrative of the battle, put total Allied losses at 17,000 in nine days.

I Saw Her Standing There' is the best first song on a debut album, ever.

We music fans love our classic albums, our seamless masterpieces, our Blonde on Blondes and our Talking Books. But we love to pluck songs off those albums and mix them up with other songs, plunging them back into the rest of the manic slipstream of rock and roll.

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.