#classic

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#chaos #classical #classical music #craved #happening

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better. ↗

— Marion Ross

#better #classics #get #great #know

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life. ↗

— Robert Redford

#classic #darkness #discovery #falling #gift

I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt. ↗

— Marc Ribot

#any #classical #easy #enjoyed #good

What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#both #breeding #bypass #classical #companies

I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

#became #body #classical #classical guitar #composition

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

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do. ↗

— Tori Amos

#dangerous #dangerous thing #doing #i #i think