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Quotes about Classical Music

"HEARD MELODIES ARE SWEET,
BUT THOSE UNHEARD ARE SWEETER:
THEREFORE, YE SOFT PIPES, PLAY ON"
KEATS
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"1 OFTEN THINK IN MUSIC.
1 LIVE MY DAYDREAMS IN MUSIC."
- ALBERT EINSTEIN
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"RACHMANINOV HAS SOME KIND OF
WEIRD DARK EDGE TO HIS MUSIC
WHICH 1 DON'T THINK I'VE HEARD
WITH ANY OTHER KIND OF MUSIC BEFORE."
MATT BELLAMY MUSE
CLASSIC
classicfm.com
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" Music begins
where the possibilities
of language end. "
- Jean Sibelius
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CLASSICAL MUSIC IS
THE KIND WE KEEP
THINKING WILL TURN
INTO A TUNE.
QUOTEHD.COM
. zKin Hübbard
American cartoonist
1868 - 1930
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"COMPOSERS ARE INFLUENCED
BY ALL THE IMPORTANT
MUSIC IN THEIR LIVES -
AND 1 SUPPOSE THAT
SINCE RADIO STARTED
PLAYING POPULAR MUSIC,
THAT'S AS LIKELY TO BE
THE BEATLES OR APHEX TWIN
AS IT IS TO BE VERDI OR RAVEL."
- JONNY GREENWOOD, RADIOHEAD
CLASSIC fM
classicfm.com
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"MUSIC PRODUCES A KIND OF PLEASURE
WHICH HUMAN NATURE CANNOT DO WITHOUT."
- CONFUCIUS
classicfm.com
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- Plato
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"MUSIC PRODUCES A KIND OF PLEASURE
WHICH HUMAN NATURE CANNOT DO WITHOUT."
- CONFUCIUS
QuotesBlog.net
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MUSIC HAS A
TASTE OF CODFISH
IN IT."
EDVARD GRIEG
CLASSIC JM
classicfm.com
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"Time is a great teacher,
but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
- Hector Berlioz
classicfm.com
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The function
of music is to
release us from
the tyranny
of conscious
thought.
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"CLASSICAL MUSIC IS PRETTY DAUNTING
IT's MADE ME A BETTER PLAYER."
- DAVE MUSTAINE, MEGADETH
CLASSIC
classicfm.com
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It is a mistake to think that the practice
of my art has become easy to me."
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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"1 TOOK CLASSICAL PIANO LESSONS
FROM THE AGE OF SIX...
IT WAS JUST THE TYPICAL THING
EXCEPT 1 WAS REALLY GOOD AT IT."
EDDIE VAN HALEN
CLASSIC fM
classicfm.com
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"THERE IS NO TRUER TRUTH OBTAINABLE
BY MAN THAN COMES OF MUSIC."
- ROBERT BROWNING
classicfm.com
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To achieve great things,
two things are needed;
a plan, and not quite
enough time."
- Leonard Bernstein
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"I'VE ALWAYS BEEN HEAVILY
INFLUENCED BY CLASSICAL MUSIC,
MOSTLY BY BAROQUE MUSIC."
- YNGWIE MALMSTEEN
CLASSIC
classicfm.com
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"WE BREAKA LOT OF RULES.
IT'S UNHEARD OF TO COMBINE OPERA
WITH A ROCK THEME, MY DEAR"
- FREDDIE MERCURY
CLASSIC
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"A creative artist
works on his next composition
because he was not satisfied
with his previous one."
- Dmitri Shostakovich
classicfm.com
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"WHEN WORDS LEAVE OFF, MUSIC BEGINS."
- HEINRICH HEINE
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"WE BREAKA LOT OF RULES.
IT'S UNHEARD OF TO COMBINE OPERA
WITH A ROCK THEME, MY DEAR."
- FREDDIE MERCURY
CLASSIC
classicfm.com
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The function
of music is to
release us from
the tyranny
of conscious
thought.
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"WHERE WORDS FAIL, MUSIC SPEAKS"
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. Votes: 5

Kin Hubbard
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. Votes: 4

Nina Simone
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I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down. Votes: 4

Novak Djokovic
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. Votes: 4

Nina Simone
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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: 4

Nina Simone
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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? Votes: 4

Lara St. John
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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: 4

Penn Jillette
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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: 4

Moby
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Music is the shorthand of emotion. Votes: 3

Leo Tolstoy
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The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition. Votes: 3

Charles Rosen
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I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around. Votes: 3

Eva Green
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If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state. Votes: 3

Frank Zappa
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At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. Votes: 3

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

Vera Nazarian
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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: 3

Sonny Rollins
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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: 3

John Corigliano
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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: 3

Brad Paisley
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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: 3

Alicia Keys
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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: 3

Ahmad Jamal
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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. Votes: 3

Michael Tilson Thomas
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The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played. Votes: 3

Andre Previn
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It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line Votes: 3

Duke Ellington
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I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style! Votes: 3

Ken Hensley
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Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy, I think there is a fairly clear line of demarcation, but the history of music is full of fusion. Popular and classical music have always found points of contact, of crossing, exchange, both drawing mutual profit. Votes: 3

Andrea Bocelli
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A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of Michelangelo, and Raphael, Da Vinci and Rembrandt, does not need lessons from societies whose idea of spirituality is a heaven peopled with female virgins for the use of men, whose idea of heaven resembles a cosmic brothel. Votes: 3

Ibn Warraq
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I also like Western classical music and jazz. Votes: 1

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

Adam Jones
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I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff. Votes: 1

Eberhard Weber
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Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes. Votes: 1

Luka Sulic
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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

Gustavo Dudamel
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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: 1

Tony Blair
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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: 1

Serj Tankian
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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: 1

Nicolas Cage
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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. Votes: 1

Michael Caine
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There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music. Votes: 1

Daniel Hope
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It's 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 that's where your community is. Votes: 1

Joshua Roman
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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

Andrea Bocelli
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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

Diane Kruger
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In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice. Votes: 1

Ravi Shankar
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Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune. Votes: 1

Gordon Getty
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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

Charles Rosen
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around. Votes: 1

Pat Metheny
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I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story. Votes: 1

Vanilla Ice
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Jazz is America's classical music. Votes: 0

Billy Taylor
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Classical music can rock you! Votes: 0

Ji-Hae Park
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I listen mostly to classical music. Votes: 0

Alexandra Fuller
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I love listening to classical music. Votes: 0

Katharine McPhee
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I was born out of classical music. Votes: 0

Mika
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The classical music world is so snobbish. Votes: 0

Andre Rieu
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I actually studied Indian classical vocal music. Votes: 0

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

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

Dizzy Gillespie
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Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33") Votes: 0

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

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

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

Itzhak Perlman
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Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic. Votes: 0

Alan Price
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Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces. Votes: 0

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

Rolonda Watts
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Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds. Votes: 0

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

Tatiana Maslany
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Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

Steve Hackett
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Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Gambon
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Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Luka Sulic
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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

Maurice Sendak
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Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be. Votes: 0

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

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

Charles Bukowski
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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: 0

Questlove
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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

Frank Fairfield
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Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand. Votes: 0

Allan Bloom
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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

Esa-Pekka Salonen
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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

Nicki Minaj
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So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything. Votes: 0

B.J. The Chicago Kid
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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

Eric Carr
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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

Lisa Loeb
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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

Sheri L. Dew
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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

Bernard Holland
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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: 0

Michael Tilson Thomas
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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: 0

Gustavo Dudamel
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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

Jascha Heifetz
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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

A. R. Rahman
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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

Herbie Hancock
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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

Stephen Sondheim
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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

Herbie Hancock
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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

Danny Fox
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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

Charles Hazlewood
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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: 0

Theo Hutchcraft
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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

Brittany Howard
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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

Terry Teachout
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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

Randall Jarrell
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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

Sara Zarr
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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

Lesley Manville
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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

Jane Chen
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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

Robert Greene
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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

Jon Lord
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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

B.o.B
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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

Eric Close
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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

Norah Jones
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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

Alan Hollinghurst
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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

Anonymous
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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

PJ Harvey
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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

Yo-Yo Ma
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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

Tommy Wiseau
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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

Amjad Ali Khan
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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

Josephine de La Baume
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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

Chris Squire
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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

Lionel Richie
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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

Willie Nelson
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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

Tom Araya
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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

Aaron Zigman
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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

Alicia Keys
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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

Philippe Petit
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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

Michael Tilson Thomas
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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

Cecile McLorin Salvant
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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

Walter Moers
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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

Bill Walton
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Regular church-goers are substantially more likely than non-attenders to read, to take newspapers and magazines, to listen to classical music, to attend symphony concerts, operas, and stage plays. Votes: 0

Rodney Stark
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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

Gary Lucas
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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

Casey Spooner
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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

Paul Smith
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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

Rafal Blechacz
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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

Terry Teachout
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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

Jimmy Page
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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

Yann Tiersen
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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 Votes: 0

Louis Armstrong
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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. Votes: 0

Van Cliburn
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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

Benjamin Carson
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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. Votes: 0

Dave Barry
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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

Moira Kelly
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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

Brad Paisley
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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: 0

Yo-Yo Ma
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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: 0

Planningtorock
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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: 0

Ian Anderson
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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

Illinois Jacquet
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From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how I approached classical music. I'm sure of it. Votes: 0

Kathleen Battle
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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

Itzhak Perlman
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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

Yann Tiersen
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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

John Fahey
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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

Esa-Pekka Salonen
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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

Trevor Rabin
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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

Alicia Keys
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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

Andrew Bird
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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. Votes: 0

James Ellroy
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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

Suzi Quatro
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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

Bobby McFerrin
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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

Andrew Bird
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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. Votes: 0

Brian Pinkerton
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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 Votes: 0

Yuja Wang
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Contrary to popular opinion, classical music does not have to be enjoyed amid exclusive circles, there need not be any snobbishness attached to it. It's there for everyone. I play for the people. Votes: 0

Andre Rieu
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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. Votes: 0

Rick Owens
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I love dancing to the radio every morning, to start the day with such passion. Otherwise, life is too sad. My little daughter and I like dancing to classical music: Bach and Schubert. Votes: 0

Anna Mouglalis
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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. Votes: 0

Van Morrison
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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

Danny Elfman
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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

Helen Reddy
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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

Graeme Base
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There's a great energy and drive that takes precedence in a lot of rock and pop. It's about making a strong visceral connection. That's something that I think great classical music can have, too. Votes: 0

Joshua Roman
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In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement. Votes: 0

Todd Boyd
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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. Votes: 0

Ronnie Milsap
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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

David Finckel
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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. Votes: 0

Joshua Roman
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I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else. It's all wonderful, and we should be open to enjoying it all. Votes: 0

Jessye Norman
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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

Bruno Mars
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I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music. Votes: 0

Andrea Bocelli
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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. Votes: 0

Hugh Laurie
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I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies. Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski
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When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music. Votes: 0

Tom Glazer
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I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars. Votes: 0

James Ellroy
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I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years. Votes: 0

Lara Fabian
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It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

Chris Thile
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Part of my big message with all this is that if you are alive, you know all you need to know about the message of classical music, because more than any other music, it is about the way life really is.

Michael Tilson Thomas
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I play classical music almost exclusively. I never mastered jazz or gospel in the way that my mother did. She was a fine improvisational musician. I pretty much have to stick to what's written on the page.

Condoleezza Rice
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There's so many different styles and facets of the 360-degree musical sphere to listen to. From tribal to classical music, it's all there. If the bottom was to sag out of that, for God's sake, help us all.

Jimmy Page
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I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello.

Tod Machover
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The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.

Lola Kirke
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As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.

Lesley Garrett
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Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music. But jazz is like classical music. If people like you, they'll remember you and you'll last forever.

Freddie Hubbard
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I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change.

Lady Gaga
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Growing up in a family that listened to almost nothing but classical music had its effects, as well. "California Über Alles," the first Dead Kennedys single, was inspired musically more by Japanese Kabuki than anything else.

Jello Biafra
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Any material can be treated in any number of ways. Sometimes I might hear something, or someone else might hear something, and say, "Wow, that sounds like classical music." Somebody else might think it sounds like a slow jam.

John Dieterich
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Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.

David Garrett
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Part of my mission is simply that: to bring the world of the arts, particularly classical music, closer to people so they don't feel that it is something remote that they have to specially prepare themselves for, or dress up for.

Michael Tilson Thomas
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.

Billy Joel
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A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.

Jamie Foxx
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Obviously there are pieces of classical music that are some of the most beautiful music ever written, for me anyway is a lot of classical or contemporary music, so it's a different kind of space that you enter when you're listening to it.

Bryce Dessner
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Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.

Tom Glazer
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Since I've grown up I really wanted to be able to create something different. In Persian music, opposite, again, to classical music, that the instrument developed and evolved over, like, hundreds of years, our instrument all remained the same.

Hafez Nazeri
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With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think that most people do this - they listen to pieces through the filter of pieces they already know.

Paul Lansky
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I remember being in college and taking a class on classical music and getting a big laugh when I said very sincerely that I was not really into trained voices. Some of the greatest singers can transcend their technical perfection and still sound great.

Ira Kaplan
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Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is still a strange item, generally speaking. Even in the arts, among our fellow creative artists in other disciplines, you still feel slightly out of it.

John Kinsella
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Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons of money to make sure that everyone hears this song a certain number of times a day - that feels like the opposite of folk music.

Will Sheff
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My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations, but interestingly, I didn't become conscious of wanting to be a musician until I was about 11. I was a rather late starter.

Gunther Schuller
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We Gonna Win' is a song of triumph, It represents my personal belief that with hard work, talent and dedication, everything is possible. It's a one of a kind marriage between rap and classical music, where the music doesn't accompany the vocalist, but rather stands on its own.

Miri Ben-Ari
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Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.

Allen Ginsberg
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I feel that classical music should be a more recognizable part of everyone's entertainment. It has been my hope that through live concerts, motion pictures, recordings, international competitions, and interesting public forums, a larger group of people will learn to love classical music and attend live concert performances.

Jose Iturbi
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