Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.
I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.
On 'Taxi,' I had the great fortune of directing many wonderful episodes, none more classic than Reverend Jim's driving test. It was maybe the funniest show I did.
As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.
For men, it's about finding the perfect shoe or the perfect pants that will last you through the years. That's how I want to shop: sustainable, classic, great quality.
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.
It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.
I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.
The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
