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
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
That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive - books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all.

Anthony Lane