Quotes About Classics

People expect me to do the classics, and it is a lot like playing a favorite song.

I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics.

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

I think that Michael Myers is an icon. The bad guys, it's always the bad guys that everybody loves. It's Michael Myers, it's Freddy, it's Jason, they're like the Dracula and Frankenstein of our generation. I think it started a new wave of horror films. They're cult classics and they're something that everybody wants to watch on Halloween.

And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun.

Since the whole world is now concerned more about K-pop, I want to make more great songs which can be listed to as classics.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

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

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.

The [2012 covers album] 2120 [South Michigan Ave.] was different. We covered a lot of classics there. But most of the time when we did it I always prided myself on digging up obscure songs that no one knew of.

The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working procedure. The satirical point of the view may be to counterpoint that. The way we look at classics has been hijacked by the intelligentsia - Shakespeare is highbrow and seen as something clever people do, which isn't right at all. I basically pull inspiration from everywhere.

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.