#classic

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics ↗

— Coco Chanel

#fashion #innovation #classics

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days. ↗

— Jane Austen

#literature #romance #classics

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way. ↗

— Marc Almond

#collection #great #i #just #next

I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#always #chance #classics #farmer #glad

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#classical guitar #guitar #i #piano #play

The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#approaches #artists #beatles #better #classic

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#classical #eight #glenn #make #musicians

For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar. ↗

— Marc Almond

#acoustic #acoustic guitar #always #classic #comes

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#american #classical #classical music #comes #cultural

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#bands #classic #did #discovering #fans