Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.
Rumi
I wanted to preserve
I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new. Farah Diba
Old Buildings
I was writing for
I was writing for a publishing company in this old building right next to the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville. We were on the top floor, and Combine Music was on the bottom floor. I was friends with all those guys. Donnie Fritts
It was a very
It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen … Read more
I have often wondered
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building. Carl Sandburg
Yankee Stadium, it’s like
Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down. Bob Feller
If I had money,
If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I’m interested in doing. Bill Dixon
I always lived in
I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You’d have to be oblivious not to. Ben Katchor
My favourite piece of
My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new. Andy Barrie
The thing I’d really
The thing I’d really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare’s Globe. I’d like to walk along that. Don’t worry, I won’t get drunk and fall in. Alan Davies