Classical Music Quotes

Classical Music Quote of the day

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

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?

To sing is to pray twice.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

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

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

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

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

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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

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

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music.

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.