#classic

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#anymore #audience #back #cd #classical

We played in bars and other such establishments and anywhere where people would listen. Sometimes they did, and sometimes not. The outfits we wore were classics of the 50's. ↗

— Phil Harris

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I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#am #becomes #blessed #classic #growing

I had had a classical education prior to that. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#education #had #i #prior

I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

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As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#classically #filmmaker #find #i #more

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#classic #films #focus #hollywood #hollywood films

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man. ↗

— Homer

#death #greece #pride #death

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

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