There is some brilliant pop music and some very poor classical music. And why shouldn't comedy be treated as seriously as drama? Melvyn Bragg More Quotes by Melvyn Bragg More Quotes From Melvyn Bragg The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet. Melvyn Bragg betterbestsometimescountry I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament. Melvyn Bragg personalnewgodbelieve We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me. Melvyn Bragg memorymeuniversetime There's a lot of hours in the week if you use them properly. Melvyn Bragg themyouweekuse What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a parallel world. The parallel world is ever-expanding. We used to think that it existed only for people who were wealthy, well-born, or educated. It isn't like that. Melvyn Bragg doingthinkpeopleworld Connery made Bond real through his physicality. He did most of his own stunts and fights, and the audience knew it was him. Melvyn Bragg bondownaudiencereal In a sense, Bond ousted the cowboy as the screen hero, and Ken Adams replaced the horse with technology. Melvyn Bragg bondhorsetechnologyhero Craig has explored the darker recesses of 007's psyche. He has shown us the lonely man. And he has shown him falling truly in love. Melvyn Bragg fallingmanlonelylove Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out fortnightly. Melvyn Bragg listenshemeromantic It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally. Melvyn Bragg popularideahighculture Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow. Melvyn Bragg onceeverythingoperamusic I wanted 'The South Bank Show' to reflect my own life and that of the team around me; to stretch the accepted boundaries and challenge the accepted hierarchies of the arts; to include pop music as well as classical music, television drama as well as theatre drama, and high-definition performers in comedy. Melvyn Bragg challengememusiclife
