#classic

It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics. ↗

— L'Wren Scott

#customer #important #rely #you #your

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#buff #classical #classical music #designer #great

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. ↗

— Hu Shih

#announced #begin #classical #experiments #friends

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#eventually #i #keyboards #led #park

Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#am #being #between #classic #difference

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. ↗

— Carly Simon

#classical #everything #father #just #mother

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important. ↗

— Nina Simone

#because #classical #classical music #dedicated #excellence

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. ↗

— Nina Simone

#classical #classical music #define #jazz #music

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist. ↗

— Nina Simone

#become #black #choices #classic #classical

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#behaviour #breakdown #case #classic #containing