Classical Music Quotes

I like to get away from noise, although I will play noisy music in my car to keep myself awake. But my ears need a rest sometimes. I do enjoy listening to classical music.

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.

Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment.

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird concerts when I was possibly too young.

The classical music is soothing and stimulating, good for thinking.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

I was able to turn to classical music many people, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

I listen mostly to classical music.

I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.

I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined.

I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.

I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven.

[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

Its a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of being at home wherever you go because thats where your community is.

I love listening to classical music.

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

Being from a classical environment, I've always been provoked by classical musicians thinking that classical music is so much greater art than pop. I've always been annoyed by that.

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.

I was born out of classical music.