Quotes of: Classical-guitar Keyword

Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's ...

Diary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me

Quinn spoke their language—all mystery and inside jokes, scarred souls and statement shirts. It was a beautiful moment for him—in his element and completely happy. When they started playing, he leaned over and whispered in my ear. “See that gui...

Perfect Glass

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

Charles Hazlewood

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

Studies in Classic American Literature

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

Studies in Classic American Literature

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms

The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds.

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.

Enrico Colantoni

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.

Michael Tilson Thomas

I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.

LL Cool J

A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.

Laila Robins

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.

Rufus Wainwright

'CLUE' is a spin on the classic board game. It uses the original characters and weapons, but it goes even further in depth than the classic who-kills-who idea.

Sterling Beaumon

I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classical and metal both, I remember having this cool realization that they are really similar. It's just different instrumentation.

Amy Lee

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

Suzi Quatro

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

Jon Lord

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

Erich Segal

'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.

Francis Ford Coppola

I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

Chuck D