#classic

Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap. ↗

— China Miéville

#genres #literary-criticism #pulp #criticism

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way. ↗

— Marc Almond

#collection #great #i #just #next

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. ↗

— Mose Allison

#classic #jazz #jazz players #lot #players

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. ↗

— Mose Allison

#armstrong #been #classic #cole #influences

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#action #animation #classical #closer #give

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#baroque #classic #composers #even #greatest

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#classic #classic example #confuses #cursed #different

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace. ↗

— Aberjhani

#famous-poets #famous-quotes #famous-quotes-from-classic-books #flowers #global-village

Classical ballet will never die. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#classical #die #never #will

Calvino was not a writer of hits; he was a writer of classics. ↗

— William Weaver

#hits #writer