All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers. Votes: 3
Oswald SpenglerThe instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery. Votes: 3
Carroll QuigleyClassical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'. Votes: 3
Robert H. SchullerClassical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages. Votes: 3
Frank ZappaClassical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to. Votes: 3
Charles HazlewoodClassical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort. Votes: 3
Leila JosefowiczClassical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. Votes: 3
Frank ZappaClassical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be. Votes: 3
Lucia MicarelliJazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. Votes: 1
Nina SimoneYes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy. Votes: 1
Nusrat Fateh Ali KhanRunning is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance. Votes: 0
Noel CarrollThe classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful. Votes: 0
Herbert A. SimonAll the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity. Votes: 0
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelThe perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyI cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare. Votes: 0
Louise JamesonI've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music. Votes: 0
Yngwie MalmsteenIf you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music. Votes: 0
Michael Tilson ThomasIn Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. Votes: 0
Richard RogersMy family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating. Votes: 0
Elizabeth McGovernI listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile. Votes: 0
Dennis RitchieYou always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do. Votes: 0
David GarrettAnd then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. Votes: 0
Ninette de ValoisI was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur. Votes: 0
Jane SiberryCopland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood. Votes: 0
Terry TeachoutI love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning. Votes: 0
William MapotherScheherazade is the classical example of a woman saving her head by using it. Votes: 0
Esme Wynne-TysonPop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts. Votes: 0
Sir Mix-a-LotA classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. Votes: 0
Russell GreenMy mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff. Votes: 0
Pete SeegerI got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. Votes: 0
Gary OldmanThe program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property. Votes: 0
Ludwig von MisesI am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music. Votes: 0
Joanna NewsomNow that rock is turning 50, it's become classical itself. It's interesting to see that development. Votes: 0
BjorkThe classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity. Votes: 0
Charles PeguyI love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater. Votes: 0
Tatiana MaslanyIn his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat. Votes: 0
Nusrat Fateh Ali KhanI enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance. Votes: 0
Deborah BullHonest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs. Votes: 0
Don DokkenIf a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him. Votes: 0
Wes MontgomeryThat's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface. Votes: 0
Robert M. PirsigA contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times. Votes: 0
Raymond WilliamsMuch of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists. Votes: 0
Roland JoffeI play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart." Votes: 0
Kiana TomI play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. Votes: 0
Kiana TomI live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration. Votes: 0
Alton TobeyI'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around. Votes: 0
Eva GreenI love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. Votes: 0
John LescroartThe classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death Votes: 0
Nassim Nicholas TalebA consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics. Votes: 0
Werner HeisenbergI've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithI have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal. Votes: 0
Charles KochWhenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer. Votes: 0
Park Chan-wookMy father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. Votes: 0
Carly SimonObviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old. Votes: 0
Steve HackettYou get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off. Votes: 0
Michael GambonListening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation. Votes: 0
Armando IannucciIn literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanI am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff. Votes: 0
Eberhard WeberAs much as I like to explore the world, I explore music - from classical to rock. Votes: 0
Jochen ZeitzI had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down. Votes: 0
Novak DjokovicWith classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force. Votes: 0
Renee FlemingI wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track. Votes: 0
Condola RashadOnce you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you. Votes: 0
Rufus WainwrightI'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate. Votes: 0
Guler SabanciAt that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims. Votes: 0
Agnes VardaIf a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical. Votes: 0
Robert AshleyJazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. Votes: 0
Jan GarbarekAs a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually. Votes: 0
Julie AndrewsI listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. Votes: 0
Lee KonitzI am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all. Votes: 0
Ruben StuddardWhat's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four. Votes: 0
Faye KellermanThe first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots. Votes: 0
Andrew BirdI abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version. Votes: 0
Charles HazlewoodI like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all. Votes: 0
Gregory MaguireI'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it. Votes: 0
LedisiI've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues. Votes: 0
Elizabeth JaggerIt is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera. Votes: 0
Luciano PavarottiI have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. Votes: 0
Jasper FfordeTo me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad! Votes: 0
MikaWhen I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music. Votes: 0
Chris MartinWhat I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud. Votes: 0
Ian McLaganI had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it. Votes: 0
Andy RourkeThe peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.
Edgar Wilson NyePhysicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. Votes: 1 Brian Greene
A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. Votes: 4 Russell Green
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. Votes: 1 Theodore White
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: 4 Stevie Nicks
The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it's really about a man on the road. There's an assumption that the road is too dangerous for women. Votes: 3 Gloria Steinem
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. Votes: 5 Kin Hubbard