Classical Music Quotes

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

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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

Jazz is America's classical music.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

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

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

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

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

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

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

Men who listen to classical music tend not to spit.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

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.

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

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.

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

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

I 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.

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