Classical Music Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

We don't want to limit ourselves to any specific sound like that was before when we were brought up in classical music.

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.

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

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

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

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

Classical music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world.

Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

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

Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

There was that sound again--snap, then a footfall. She tried to whirl around as a dark form--Dear God--sprang with a splash from the darkness--grabbed her from behind, shoved her under the water.

In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn't wait for no man, and that's why we choose to conceive things from the heart.

The power of classical music turns my words into fire.