They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I’m their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.
Cee Lo – to me, his voice is classic; I’ve personally said to him before, ‘For me, your voice is as special as a Michael Jackson vocal,’ because of what he can do, his range. I said that to him, and I mean that.
‘Six Feet Under,’ for me, was college. Alan Ball and Alan Poul ran that show and really taught me what it meant to really run a show in a classic way.
French designers are classic, chic, and traditional.
They’re getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.
I think with the Mae Young Classic, bringing in 30 women from all over the world shows what an impact women have in the company.
For proper family portraits it’s best to stick with classic, timeless looks that will not only be beautiful now but also in 20 years, and keep the wardrobe color palette similar so it looks like the group shot was well planned.
In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat forms on a stranger’s brow, the muggy air stifles – one can hardly breathe. Come nightfall, there is no relief, only the darkness that allows illicit lovers to meet, the trusted to betray, and murderers to act.
I’ve never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I’m a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I’m really Desperate Dan.
As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-’80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
I wanna write a classic metal record, a classic rock record, in 2013.
Frank Sinatra was a great singer, but my favourite is Sammy Davis Jr. He had incredible versatility in his voice, often doing impressions of people. It’s always going to be classic, and you’ll never get bored listening.
I like to do things that are classic.
What I want is a way to put Universal monster toys back in the aisles alongside ‘Star Wars’ and all the other stuff and introduce today’s kids to the classic monsters.
The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that’s really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of ’em sang blues.
This is the launch of the ‘Doctor Strange’ film interpretation of – in my view – a classic, which has been interpreted many times by other graphic artists, and this is just our graphic interpretation of The Ancient One. I would say the whole approach is about a kind of fluidity.
Too much research can be the writer’s enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or prowling the streets with a Dictaphone, and it’s easy to convince yourself that you’re working hard. Often, it can be an excuse not to work; a classic displacement activity.
I usually decide if I’m going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought ‘Pulling Strings’ had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It’s very well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script.
It’s meant to reaffirm the validity of that music – clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today’s audience.
I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that’s sung.
I’m really pretty classic.
I love the cowbell. I think it’s awesome. My family got the cowbell app on their iPhones. It’s a classic part of ski racing.
There’s no gift more classic and more beautiful than roses.
‘Halloween’ is such a classic, and I think that was one of the first horror movies I’ve ever watched.
I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I’m heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can’t really separate the two.
I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There’s only so much you can wear.
I’m the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks.
I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn’t catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.
When you think about French pastry, one of the most classic traditional pastries is the eclair. An eclair is like a blank canvas that can be easily adapted to any environment. Ingredients are the most important aspect of a perfect eclair, and they need to be used at their peak.
Go to the Savoy for a classic British tea and to see what a $350 million renovation can do for a hotel.
The original ‘Star Trek’ series is the classic one. Its successor, ‘The Next Generation,’ is less lovable, but at its best, it’s smarter.
My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances.
Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn’t be mixed with. Light pink or blue is not bad, but again, you’re just breaking from a classic.
I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic and cult films I was lucky to be a part of.
I’ve grown up on American songwriters my whole life – listening to Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and people like John Prine – you know, classic, real songwriters. They’ve been the lion’s share of what I’ve really focused on as a writer and as influences, too.
I’m Marie Lightfoot, or at least that’s the name my publisher puts on the covers of the books I write about true crime. In classic ‘true crime’ fashion, my latest one is titled ‘Anything to Be Together.’
The beauty of what Apple does at Apple is that they’re not on trend; they are classic.
I love looking like classic Hollywood.
Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic great entrepreneur.
For Instagram, people use cameras ranging from high-end DSLRs, point-and-shoots, classic film cameras, and their smartphones. I personally like to use my iPhone because I know I will always have it with me.
If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low, warm feel to it.
I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
I think Calvin is so beautiful. Oscar De La Renta is so classic. I really like the Rodarte girl; they are super-inventive, and they think outside the box. I am all over the place!
It definitely wasn’t like, ‘Hey, I’m going to steal that, and nobody’s going to know.’ The original ‘T.R.O.Y.’ came out in 1992, and it was like a 20th anniversary kind of thing. All of those intentions were there for it to be resurrecting a classic for a new generation. I tried to honor it.
I’m a child of the ’80s, so like everyone else, I love all those classic, formative movies – ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ ‘Pretty in Pink,’ ‘Sixteen Candles,’ ‘Dirty Dancing,’ etc., with ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ and ‘The Breakfast Club’ existing on a separate, slightly higher plane.
I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn’t get reviewed in any major outlets.
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.
To be appreciated by a whole ‘nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it’s kind of what I did with the classic bands I love – the ones that influenced me.
‘The Admirable Crichton’ is probably Barrie’s most famous work after ‘Peter Pan’, nearly a pendant to that classic.
Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it’s one of those classic Internet companies.
I like to find things that are unconventional and make them look classic, because if I’m forcing something, you can just tell.
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms – to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.
My aesthetic is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple but appreciate the details.
The first record I ever bought was Kiss’s ‘Destroyer.’ And those classic bands like Black Sabbath were my first loves.
I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.
I’m a huge fan of classic sci-fi.
