Classical Quotes

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By.

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

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.

Our first show, A Little Nightmare Music, encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.

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.

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.

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 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.

I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.

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.

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.

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

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.

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.

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.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

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 presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.