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• Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.

  Janel Parrish

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  Tags in Classical, Jazz

• I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. ‘Shakespeare,’ you know. And now, I never play leading men. I’m that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it’s a drama.

  John Michael Higgins

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  Tags in Leading, Classical

• Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it’s healthy to return to classical forms.

  Michael Haneke

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  Tags in Utmost, Classical

• I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

  Eddie Van Halen

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  Tags in Holland, Classical

• I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

  Zaha Hadid

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  Tags in Classical, Sometimes

• I’m not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren’t straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

  Sylvester Stallone

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  Tags in Mouth, Classical

• Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really – Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

  Wallace Shawn

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  Tags in Spent, Classical

• The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classical. You can of course get very excited about doing something completely out of the ordinary, just like the Olympic stadium in its time. But each to his or her own taste.

  Franz Beckenbauer

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  Tags in Different, Classical, Something

• Though I’m not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

  Fran Drescher

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  Tags in Religious, Classical

• The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

  George Thorogood

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  Tags in Classical, Radio

• I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Classical

• I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

  George Crumb

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  Tags in Classical, Traditional, Music

• I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

  Colin Charles Greenwood

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  Tags in Trained, Classical

• I’m going to have classical piano lessons next.

  Colin Charles Greenwood

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  Tags in Classical, Going

• There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn’t talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good.

  Gelsey Kirkland

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  Tags in Classical, Technique, Band

• I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that’s sung.

  Gavin DeGraw

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  Tags in Classical, Music

• I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

  Gary Oldman

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  Tags in Classical, Music

• I have no doubt that there are great people about though… the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

  Gary Lucas

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  Tags in Self, Like, Classical, Music

• Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

  Don Dokken

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  Tags in Classical

• I had classical training but I don’t consider myself an opera singer though.

  Emmy Rossum

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  Tags in Classical, Training