Classical Quotes

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Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

To sing is to pray twice.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

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

Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor.

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music remote.

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did we contribute to the world? ... we contributed Louis Armstrong

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.

I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.