Classical Quotes

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'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.

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

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

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 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.

Jazz is America's classical music.

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

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

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

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.

when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

Men who listen to classical music tend not to spit.

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

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

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?

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

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

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.

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

I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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