Dying Art Quotes

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

I have been given something really, really special and really unique, and it is not just in and of itself having learned from my father, who is the greatest exponent of this musical style. But it is an oral tradition that is only generally passed on in that manner, and so without the people who continue to... learn it and perform it, it dies.

I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.

I'm as old-school as it gets in this modern era. I'm the last of a dying breed.

I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.

I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

I just think Barack [Obama], he doesn't dig being asked at all. He's got a bit of an imperious nature about him. I guess nobody has told him that nobody reads newspapers anymore. That is a dying art form.

I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

Interpretive thinking, as an art form, is dying.

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered.

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.

I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.