Classics Quotes

Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

Cameron Mackintosh
I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

Harvey Korman
- Hamlet
- Chekhov
- Ibsen

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

Lisa See
Doing the classics is always nice because it's a part of the archive, and that's what people love to hear, and I don't mind that.

Mya
- Part
- Classics
- Archive
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

Oscar Wilde
- Country
- Progress
- Beauty
Jimmy Page is an excellent producer. Led Zeppelin I and II are classics. As a player he's very good in the studio, but I've never seen him play well live. He's sloppy. He plays like he's got a broken hand and he's two years old. If you put out a good album and play like a two year old, what's the purpose?

Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
Some of my favourites... there's the classics like Blur and Oasis and Pulp, Suede and The Charlatans, The La's, The Smiths, The Cure, stuff like that. That was a huge part of my teen-years and bands I still listen to right through to this day, but it had a huge bearing on me as a teen and it was some of my favourite music, and is still to this day some of my favourite music.

Mikey Way My Chemical Romance
- Music
- Listen
- Bands
I do all the classics, like Dylan, Kristofferson, Jimmy Reed, Mexican mariachi songs, some jazz songs from the '30s. Cole Porter's 'Begin the Beguine,' that's one of my favorites.

Harry Dean Stanton