Classically Quotes

#1. My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.

Noah Gray-Cabey

#2. Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.

Lesley Garrett

#3. I had joined Yes in 1971. I was a classically trained musician who had worked with numerous artists as a session musician. I played on David Bowie's 'Life On Mars,' Cat Stevens's 'Morning Has Broken' and even on some Des O'Connor records, though I kept that quiet.

Rick Wakeman

#4. I went to drama school. I'm classically trained; I studied Shakespeare, blah blah blah. But I always preferred to do Oscar Wilde, or Shakespeare's comedies over his dramas.

Elizabeth Banks

#5. I took vocal lessons all through my childhood and still do. I was classically trained.

Sofia Carson

#6. I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I'm used to it in a way. If you're classically trained like I am, it's a little bit like mother's milk to me. I enjoy it.

Brian Cox

#7. I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen.

Kelli O'Hara

#8. My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.

Elvis Costello

#9. In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

Imelda May

#10. I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.

Beau Mirchoff

#11. People misconstrue when I say I was a dancer. I was not classically trained. I was a street dancer, and I got to do what I did in the nightclubs of New York City.

Michael K. Williams

#12. I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.

Clare Bowen

#13. I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

Jacqueline Emerson

#14. I have a lot of influences. I'm American-schooled. I'm classically trained. I'm a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a lot of degrees, which really don't pay the rent. I have two doctorate degrees, I have a bachelor's degree, but I'm still a cook.

Emeril Lagasse

#15. I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

Wesley Snipes

#16. Classically posh girls like Victoria Hervey are now trying to be Hollywood girls. Hollywood girls are trying to be posh girls. Everything is all mixed up, turned on its head.

Trinny Woodall

#17. The only real danger is flinching, seeming to notice your own nakedness. If you don't flinch, you're merely nude, which is a classically recognized form of beauty.

David Thomson

#18. I'm not classically trained, but I am flawed in a very fantastic way!

Cee Lo Green

#19. Aaron snorted "That's so cheesy."
"Well yeah. I am cheesy. I'm the king of cheese. You should know that by now.
Aaron's eyes were dancing with amusement. "I prefer to call you classically romantic.

Cleon Lee

#20. I'm trained as an actor for the stage - classically trained, believe it or not - and I worked closely with Stella Adler for years. People don't know that much about it. They just think I am these people. But I've been in this comedy racket, because it's just how everybody wants to see me.

Michael Richards

#21. Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.

Emeril Lagasse

#22. Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#23. I never contemplated. I just went in there and did my acting. I never thought, "What's the character actually feeling here? What's he trying to get across?" And never looked at it from that classically trained actor's point of view.

Matthew Lewis

#24. One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#25. I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.

Florence Welch

#26. Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.

Alan Cumming

#27. The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

Walter Scott

#28. I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

Brad Dourif

#29. The sound of a cell phone chiming at her desk seems to make her ears perk, and her eyes graze past my shoulders. She's like a dog that's been classically conditioned to react at the sound of a text message notification.

Winter Renshaw

#30. He reminded me of all the golden boys I'd known in my life- classically handsome and charmingly sure of his place at the very top of the heap, confident that the world was his and that he was safe in it, without ever having considered otherwise.

Cheryl Strayed

#31. I'm not a classically trained actor. I'm not a product of Stavlovski method or anything like that.

Bob Newhart

#32. Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into soul, and so melody has always been the first. It's so important.

Emeli Sande

#33. Comedians have varying levels of training. It can range from classically trained actors (like Robin Williams) to people who took comedy classes to folks who just started doing it. That's the beauty of comedy: it's close to a pure meritocracy.

Ted Alexandro

#34. The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

Jeff Buckley

#35. Cahir, wrinkling his brow imperiously, shouted back something menacing about imperial service, backing up his words with the classically military and ever effective 'for fuck's sake'.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#36. I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.

Neneh Cherry

#37. Classically, the ability to invent and execute plans was believed to be limited to only three species: chimpanzees, gorillas, and human beings. Now

Michael Crichton

#38. Classically, at the beginning of a regime change, it is usually a good idea and trustworthy gesture for the new leader to renounce the evildoings of the old administration and establish as much distance from the outgoing disgrace as possible. When

Cintra Wilson

#39. My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

Condola Rashad

#40. Classically, the patient went into psychotherapy because she was neurotic from the suppression of her perverse desires, now she goes into psychotherapy because she is guilty about not enjoying her perverse desires.

Edward St. Aubyn

#41. There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.

Victoria Legrand

#42. I'm not classically pretty; I've always been too heavy; I've had thyroid disease and it's very hard for me to lose weight - but I've always had men pursue me. I've always had that 'it' thing. God knows why. Maybe it's pheromones, I don't know.

Erica Jong

#43. 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

#44. My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

Atticus Ross

#45. Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath.

Tim O'Brien

#46. I think that markets classically fail in cases where there are public goods that provide benefits that people cannot capture. The big debate is how big these public goods are, where they exist, things of that sort.

Peter Thiel

#47. Medicating the symptom of any illness without exploring its root cause is just a classically hare-brained Western way to think that anyone could ever get truly better.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#48. People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#49. You're looking good today Bret. Very hot ... hotter than Jemaine. You have a refined bone structure, while Jemaine's facial features are too deep set to be classically handsome.

Kristen Schaal

#50. I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by nature, so I'm frustrated as an artist.

Nicole Ari Parker

#51. But unlike the classically trained, my dancing had no respect for so-called boundaries; I wasn't afraid to break the rules.

Danny Wallace

#52. When I do operas, I'm not really singing very classically. I have a classical background as far as being a pianist and an oboist, but my voice isn't really classical in the operatic sense. But I certainly have a classical sensibility, so I'm comfortable being in that world.

Jason Graae

#53. Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

Idina Menzel

#54. She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

Jodi Picoult

#55. As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.

Alain De Botton

#56. What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.

Lesley Garrett

#57. People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they wouldn't actually make things, get their hands dirty. I don't think I'm a muse, although I think I can help pull a trigger. I really like getting my hands dirty.

Amanda Harlech

#58. I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do.

Shuler Hensley

#59. We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being. So classically what occurs is that one meets a teacher.

Frederick Lenz

#60. Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

Ronald D. Moore

#61. I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.

Kate Winslet

#62. I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies.

Vanessa Brown

#63. My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think.

Birdy

#64. Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap.

Terry Pratchett

#65. I was trained classically, and that's something that I want to do, but I do want to say that right now it's a good market for female comedians, and I want to explore that right now. I really do want to do dramas and meatier roles, especially film.

Eliza Coupe

#66. I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I created a sculpture based on a painting I had done for the 1984 Olympics.

Richard MacDonald

#67. My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.

Wolf Blitzer