Classical Quotes

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

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

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")

[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.

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

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.

I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.

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.

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

I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me.

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!

It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time.

I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

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.

There are so many people who are interested in classical music. Fortunately, I think many of them are quite young, so it's wonderful to present new programs to them.

We don't want to limit ourselves to any specific sound like that was before when we were brought up in classical music.

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

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

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.

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

Classical music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world.

Sameron adion asoI shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.

String theory makes sense to me because the universe is a symphony that creates harmony with the vibration of our strings.

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical itself. It's interesting to see that development.

Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar..

She ran. Deeper, deeper into the mysterious Broceliande forest...

All that is gold does not glitter.Not all those who wander are lost:The old that is strong does not wither.Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

The power of classical music turns my words into fire.

There was that sound again--snap, then a footfall. She tried to whirl around as a dark form--Dear God--sprang with a splash from the darkness--grabbed her from behind, shoved her under the water.

Oracle of Delphi:In my deep mystery I breatheyour fragrance swirling inyour odourless soulI return your mysteryrevealing your destiny deep inthe seed of your God Self

In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn't wait for no man, and that's why we choose to conceive things from the heart.

Pavlov’s dogs will drool at the site of any food, So go ahead and ring the bell, Sing a classical song about it and Then advertises what sells

Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?