#classic

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea. ↗

— Steve Martin

#americanized #anyone #ask #classic #could

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#amazing #around #brother #by the time #city

It was like a classic thing with Emma. So I walked in and I slammed the door and everything fell off the wall on the set. It was my second or third scene and I was so embarrassed and scared and so nervous about what everyone would say, but everyone just packed up laughing. ↗

— Dannii Minogue

#classic #door #embarrassed #emma #everyone

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

#age #although #classics #diversion #few

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic. ↗

— Alan Price

#classical #emotional #fantastic #music #themes

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#classical training #consider #had #i #myself

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#actress #classes #classical #going #i

. Classic Ballet, Keep away, keep building your creaky fairy castles, keep cloning clones and meaningless manners, hang on to your beanstalk ballerinas and their midget male shadows, run yourself out of business with your tons of froufrou and costly clattery toe shoes that ruin all chances for illusions of lightness, keep on crowding the minds of blind balletomanes who prefer dainty poses to the eloquent strength of momentum, who have forgotten or never known the manings of gesture, who would nod their noses to barefoot embargos ("so grab me" spelt backwards). Continue to repolish your stiff technique and to ignore a public that hungers for something other than a bag of tricks and the empty-headedness of surface patterns. Just keep it up, keep imitating yourself, and, , go grow your own dance makers. Come on, don't keep trying to filter modern ones through your so-safe extablishment. We're to be seen undiluted, undistorted, not absorbed by your hollow world like blood into a sponge. Yours truly, A Different Leaf on Our Family Tree . ↗

— Paul Taylor

#classic-ballet #letter #business

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be, are full of trees and changing leaves ↗

— Woolf Virginia

#change

It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #poetry #inspirational