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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.


Mark Twain


#classic #people #praise #read #which

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.


Drew Barrymore


#classic #dish #dishes #fancy #food

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.


Warren Zevon


#classical composers #composers #great #hendrix #him

I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.


Barbara Broccoli


#bond #british #certain #character #classical

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.


Dave Brubeck


#classical #freedom #get #improvise #jazz

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.


Dave Brubeck


#composer #favorite #fifth #find #his

Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined?


Dorothy L. Sayers


#education #information-literacy #information-management #learning #literacy

The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.


Steve Vai


#acoustic guitar #back #classical #classical guitar #dynamic

It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.


Steve Vai


#bar #because #classical #classical guitar #could

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.


John Corigliano


#classical music #culture #jazz #love #minority






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