Classic Quotes - Page 2

Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

Do you work in a strip club?

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound.

The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

He would, wouldn't he?

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

[after accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman] You are a woman, aren't you?

A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.

So who's on drugs here?... He looks as if he's on drugs.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

Do you still throw spears at each other?

It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.

I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!