Quotes about Classical

Classical music can rock you! Votes: 3

Classical slap-stick rappers need Chapstick. Votes: 3

Classical ballet will never die. Votes: 3

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic. Votes: 3

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content. Votes: 3

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33") Votes: 3

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces. Votes: 3

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like. Votes: 3

All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers. Votes: 3

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. Votes: 3

The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery. Votes: 3

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. Votes: 3

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'. Votes: 3

Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages. Votes: 3

Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world. Votes: 3

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to. Votes: 3

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort. Votes: 3

Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown. Votes: 3

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. Votes: 3

Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all. Votes: 3

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes. Votes: 3

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change. Votes: 3

Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be. Votes: 3

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. Votes: 3

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand. Votes: 3

So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything. Votes: 3

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life. Votes: 3

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track. Votes: 3

Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics. Votes: 3

Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate. You can mix two styles and get fusion; any more, and you just get confusion. Votes: 3

Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate...you can mix two styles and get fusion; any more and you just get confusion. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. Votes: 3

Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim [Blake Nelson]. Votes: 3

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket. Votes: 3

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting. Votes: 3

R&B is everything. Hip Hop, Soul, Gospel and Classical Blues are everything. All of that makes sense in BJ The Chicago Kid and what we do. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

A lot of blues guitarists play with only three fingers, and they can't figure out certain runs that require the use of their little fingers. Classical training is good for that. Votes: 3

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next. Votes: 1

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background. Votes: 1

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. Votes: 1

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. Votes: 1

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy. Votes: 1

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it. Votes: 1

I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there. Votes: 1

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works. Votes: 1

Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens. Votes: 1

I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life. Votes: 1

I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff. Votes: 1

Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult. Votes: 1

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. Votes: 1

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. Votes: 1

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. Votes: 1

New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name. Votes: 1

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about. Votes: 1

Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman. Votes: 1

In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as a composer. As a composer I have tried everything, even electronic music and avant-garde. But as a performer I am, believe me, getting more classical and more orthodox, jealously protecting the heritage that I have learned. Votes: 1

My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother. Votes: 1

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter. Votes: 1

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands. Votes: 1

I'm a classical Christian. Votes: 0

Jazz is America's classical music. Votes: 0

I played classical as a kid. Votes: 0

I listen mostly to classical music. Votes: 0

I love listening to classical music. Votes: 0

A temperate style is alone classical. Votes: 0

I was born out of classical music. Votes: 0

The classical music world is so snobbish. Votes: 0

I actually studied Indian classical vocal music. Votes: 0

New music is absolutely integral to classical music. Votes: 0

I also like Western classical music and jazz. Votes: 0

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion. Votes: 0

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself. Votes: 0

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic. Votes: 0

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise. Votes: 0

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical. Votes: 0

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. Votes: 0

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart. Votes: 0

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar. Votes: 0

I like to listen the blues and some classical. Votes: 0

Jazz will be the classical music of the future. Votes: 0

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five. Votes: 0

Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics. Votes: 0

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians. Votes: 0

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it. Votes: 0

'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s. Votes: 0

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie. Votes: 0

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music. Votes: 0

Men who listen to classical music tend not to spit. Votes: 0

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. Votes: 0

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance. Votes: 0

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo. Votes: 0

The classical music is soothing and stimulating, good for thinking. Votes: 0

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined. Votes: 0

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz. Votes: 0

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together. Votes: 0

Autumn is a classical music; when it begins, the gravity disappears! Votes: 0

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful. Votes: 0

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music, Votes: 0

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity. Votes: 0

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet. Votes: 0

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. Votes: 0

I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis. Votes: 0

I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic. Votes: 0

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera. Votes: 0

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age. Votes: 0

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz. Votes: 0

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition. Votes: 0

The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not. Votes: 0

Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays. Votes: 0

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum. Votes: 0

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical. Votes: 0

The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it. Votes: 0

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer. Votes: 0

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value. Votes: 0

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare. Votes: 0

I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music. Votes: 0

Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.' Votes: 0

I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music. Votes: 0

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music. Votes: 0

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education. Votes: 0

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world. Votes: 0

Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts. Votes: 0

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing. Votes: 0

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though. Votes: 0

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music. Votes: 0

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. Votes: 0

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating. Votes: 0

It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English. Votes: 0

Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover. Votes: 0

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax. Votes: 0

I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing. Votes: 0

First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control. Votes: 0

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist. Votes: 0

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear. Votes: 0

First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control Votes: 0

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile. Votes: 0

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do. Votes: 0

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well. Votes: 0

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. Votes: 0

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur. Votes: 0

Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood. Votes: 0

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill. Votes: 0

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre. Votes: 0

A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen. Votes: 0

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning. Votes: 0

Scheherazade is the classical example of a woman saving her head by using it. Votes: 0

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do. Votes: 0

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts. Votes: 0

A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. Votes: 0

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff. Votes: 0

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. Votes: 0

The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property. Votes: 0

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music. Votes: 0

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical itself. It's interesting to see that development. Votes: 0

The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity. Votes: 0

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater. Votes: 0

In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat. Votes: 0

You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between. Votes: 0

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance. Votes: 0

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs. Votes: 0

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him. Votes: 0

That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface. Votes: 0

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well. Votes: 0

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times. Votes: 0

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development. Votes: 0

Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times. Votes: 0

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation. Votes: 0

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists. Votes: 0

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart." Votes: 0

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. Votes: 0

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration. Votes: 0

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around. Votes: 0

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. Votes: 0

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death Votes: 0

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics. Votes: 0

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. Votes: 0

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal. Votes: 0

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer. Votes: 0

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. Votes: 0

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old. Votes: 0

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off. Votes: 0

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation. Votes: 0

In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between! Votes: 0

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff. Votes: 0

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music. Votes: 0

Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids. Votes: 0

As much as I like to explore the world, I explore music - from classical to rock. Votes: 0

A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability. Votes: 0

Our first show, A Little Nightmare Music, encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music. Votes: 0

I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand. Votes: 0

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. Votes: 0

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down. Votes: 0

I've learned what "˜classical' means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence. Votes: 0

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force. Votes: 0

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. Votes: 0

I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully. Votes: 0

Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness. Votes: 0

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track. Votes: 0

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art. Votes: 0

Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you. Votes: 0

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state. Votes: 0

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate. Votes: 0

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims. Votes: 0

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical. Votes: 0

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. Votes: 0

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually. Votes: 0

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety. Votes: 0

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. Votes: 0

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. Votes: 0

People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics Votes: 0

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. Votes: 0

I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all. Votes: 0

Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music. Votes: 0

Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments. Votes: 0

What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four. Votes: 0

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress. Votes: 0

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots. Votes: 0

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version. Votes: 0

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. Votes: 0

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. Votes: 0

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all. Votes: 0

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful. Votes: 0

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance. Votes: 0

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot. Votes: 0

Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future. Votes: 0

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it. Votes: 0

Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes. Votes: 0

I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues. Votes: 0

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever. Votes: 0

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera. Votes: 0

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music. Votes: 0

In fact, among the 1000 titles which I have recorded in the past 35 years, there are less than 10% of classical titles. Votes: 0

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness. Votes: 0

In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist. Votes: 0

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life. Votes: 0

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. Votes: 0

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies Votes: 0

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music. Votes: 0

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?' Votes: 0

The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right. Votes: 0

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood? Votes: 0

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. Votes: 0

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. Votes: 0

I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references. Votes: 0

I studied shades, textures by painting after the Old Masters, the classical European paintings, as part of my educational process. Votes: 0

To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad! Votes: 0

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music. Votes: 0

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. Votes: 0

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music. Votes: 0

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general. Votes: 0

Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs. Votes: 0

Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. Votes: 0

As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. Votes: 0

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings. Votes: 0

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music. Votes: 0

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them. Votes: 0

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society. Votes: 0

I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous. Votes: 0

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. Votes: 0

The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets. Votes: 0

The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets. Votes: 0

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. Votes: 0

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself. Votes: 0

Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles. Votes: 0

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'... Votes: 0

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. Votes: 0

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking. Votes: 0

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. Votes: 0

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. Votes: 0

Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic. Votes: 0

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there. Votes: 0

I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak. Votes: 0

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on. Votes: 0

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process. Votes: 0

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates. Votes: 0

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates. Votes: 0

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things. Votes: 0

I was able to turn to classical music many people, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have. Votes: 0

My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it. Votes: 0

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre. Votes: 0

I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day. Votes: 0

What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud. Votes: 0

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible. Votes: 0

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available. Votes: 0

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies. Votes: 0

I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz. Votes: 0

I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it. Votes: 0

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids. Votes: 0

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all. Votes: 0

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. Votes: 0

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats. Votes: 0

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park. Votes: 0

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple. Votes: 0

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory. Votes: 0

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together. Votes: 0

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. Votes: 0

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. Votes: 0

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why. Votes: 0

Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery. Votes: 0

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar. Votes: 0

Of course, there will always be, you know, conservative classical people who will judge you, but you know, who cares about them? Votes: 0

I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music. Votes: 0

I've often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently. Votes: 0

...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study. Votes: 0

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day. Votes: 0

One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come up. Votes: 0

The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility). Votes: 0

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker? Votes: 0

Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music... I like a lot of different things. Votes: 0

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets. Votes: 0

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill. Votes: 0

Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong. Votes: 0

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer. Votes: 0

Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong, Votes: 0

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement. Votes: 0

For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A real gold standard is thoroughly consistent with [classical] liberal principles and I, for one, am entirely in favor of measures promoting its development. Votes: 0

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few. Votes: 0

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records. Votes: 0

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression. Votes: 0

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music. Votes: 0

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor. Votes: 0

In the classical spiritual definition, a soul mate is someone that you have reincarnated with many times. You find each other in many lifetimes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean. Votes: 0

Kaz's art is a powerful example of discipline and freedom. His classical calligraphy captures the inner movement and stillness of the brush and mind. Votes: 0

I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor. Votes: 0

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean. Votes: 0

I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything. Votes: 0

Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms. Votes: 0

Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply. Votes: 0

The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre. Votes: 0

The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as "concinnitas" or "unity-in-variety". Votes: 0

My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. Votes: 0

I believe that the existence of the classical "path" can be pregnantly formulated as follows: The "path" comes into existence only when we observe it. Votes: 0

When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile. Votes: 0

I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz. Votes: 0

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough. Votes: 0

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter's played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love. Votes: 0

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera. Votes: 0

I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to put it together. Votes: 0

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer. Votes: 0

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot. Votes: 0

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample. Votes: 0

If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world. Votes: 0

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear. Votes: 0

Indeed, I find it illuminating to consider to what extent our "classical conditions" for economic growth are satisfied in the current, monopolistic phase of capitalism. Votes: 0

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly. Votes: 0

The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does. Votes: 0

I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid there weren't. Votes: 0

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other Votes: 0

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other. Votes: 0

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health. Votes: 0

There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change. Votes: 0

Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as well as the other. Votes: 0

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests. Votes: 0

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories. Votes: 0

Sometimes in the great soundtrack of our lives there are no words, there are only emotions; I believe this is why God gave us classical music. Votes: 0

I love the theater and I particularly love the classical theater and I love doing Shakespeare. It pays the soul, but it doesn't pay the rent. Votes: 0

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre. Votes: 0

I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain preference too, be honest. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical. Votes: 0

The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it? Votes: 0

My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach. Votes: 0

I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified. Votes: 0

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration. Votes: 0

It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians. Votes: 0

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written. Votes: 0

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs. Votes: 0

Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on 'Time And A Word.' Votes: 0

Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and Beethoven are subsidized. Votes: 0

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre. Votes: 0

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him. Votes: 0

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made. Votes: 0

I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the internet very accessible and quick. Votes: 0

No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had a classical education. Votes: 0

What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Tudors' was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time. Votes: 0

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important. Votes: 0

I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear. Votes: 0

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. Votes: 0

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument. Votes: 0

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument. Votes: 0

On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk. Votes: 0

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off. Votes: 0

The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual. Votes: 0

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams). Votes: 0

I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music. Votes: 0

Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz. Votes: 0

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock Votes: 0

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock. Votes: 0

Im always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov. Votes: 0

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams. Votes: 0

I started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way. Votes: 0

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world. Votes: 0

The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease. Votes: 0

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books... Votes: 0

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen. Votes: 0

when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art. Votes: 0

There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology. Votes: 0

[Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym. Votes: 0

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent. Votes: 0

I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov. Votes: 0

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. Votes: 0

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way. Votes: 0

As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards. Votes: 0

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone. Votes: 0

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head. Votes: 0

Certainly, when you train as a classical dancer, you are very much influenced by 'Giselle.' You see it all the time; you start to learn the steps a little. Votes: 0

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen. Votes: 0

I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today, on and off the stage. Votes: 0

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life. Votes: 0

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way. Votes: 0

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that. Votes: 0

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there. Votes: 0

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six. Votes: 0

When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point. Votes: 0

A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country. Votes: 0

Horror films have been with us forever, so you can't say I originated that in any way, but it sort of brought back a classical way to make a horror film. Votes: 0

I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part. Votes: 0

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain. Votes: 0

If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the Danish dancer Eric Bruhn were, I feel, without peer. Votes: 0

Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very - for want of abetter word - sophisticated classical piece as much as you enjoy something that's very simple pop. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exciting event? Votes: 0

to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world. Votes: 0

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse. Votes: 0

There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I count only the hours that are serene.". Votes: 0

I did stand-up for a long time and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve. Votes: 0

I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue. Votes: 0

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses. Votes: 0

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops. Votes: 0

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music. Votes: 0

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do. Votes: 0

I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me. Votes: 0

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry. Votes: 0

I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form. Votes: 0

I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road skipped around from classical to Western to new age to hyper-cinematic. Votes: 0

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice. Votes: 0

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music.You should know a bunch of music and have respect for all sorts of genres and styles of music. Votes: 0

What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues, to classical and big band and then go to pop and rap. Votes: 0

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great. Votes: 0

You know I'm a bit of a dag because I listen to classical music. I recently bought myself an iPod and downloaded every piece of classical music that I had access to onto that. Votes: 0