Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.
I'd much rather dress like a 5 year old than a 21 year old. I'd much rather wear a puffy sleeved shirt than some low-cut top.
My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.
Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.
Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
Make New FrNdS But Keep D oLd , One iS silVer The Other is Gold.
Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.
Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.
The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they're still working. They just keep doing it.
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.
Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.
Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.
When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady.
One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.
In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.
