Classical Music quotes

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

#Self #Taught #Classical Music

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
-- Alan Vega

#Listening #Jazz #Classical Music

For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.
-- Aleksey Igudesman

#Interesting #Film #Classical Music

I listen mostly to classical music.
-- Alexandra Fuller

#Classical Music

The classical music world is so snobbish.
-- Andre Rieu

#World #Classical Music #Snobbish

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

#Classical Music

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.
-- Birdy

#Classical Music #Wells

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.
-- Bruno Mars

#Style #Incredibles #Classical Music

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

#Tradition #Classical Music #Music Is

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

#Stuff #Lovers #Classical Music

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.
-- Edgar Meyer

#Jazz #Scottish #Classical Music

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.
-- Edgar Wilson Nye

#Sound #Peculiar #Classical Music

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
-- Elizabeth McGovern

#Intimidating #My Family #Classical Music

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music,
-- Enya

#Church #Influence #Classical Music

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

#Cocoons #Classical Music

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.
-- Felicity Kendal

#Gorgeous #Classical Music #Gentle

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

#Citizens #Today #Classical Music

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.
-- Gustavo Dudamel

#People #Chance #Classical Music

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
-- Herb Alpert

#Jazz #Classical Music

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.
-- Itzhak Perlman

#Classical Music #Ability

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

#World #Jazz #Classical Music

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
-- Joanna Newsom

#Classical Music #Relation

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.
-- Jon Lord

#Use #Way #Classical Music

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

#Focus #Jazz #Classical Music

I love listening to classical music.
-- Katharine McPhee

#Listening #Classical Music

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
-- Lee Konitz

#Listening #Jazz #Classical Music

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.
-- Leila Josefowicz

#People #Comfort #Classical Music

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.
-- Marianne Faithfull

#Dad #Parent #Classical Music

I was born out of classical music.
-- Mika

#Classical Music #Born

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!
-- Norah Jones

#Texas #Classical Music #Grew Up

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

#Nerves #Calm #Classical Music

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
-- Questlove

#Classical Music #Concentration #Committed

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
-- Satyajit Ray

#Classical Music #Western

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

#Music #Classical Music #Mark

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.
-- Sonny Rollins

#Real #Europe #Classical Music

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

#Music #Classical Music #Baroque 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.
-- Yo-Yo Ma

#Way #Classical Music #Mankind

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

#Art #Classical Music #Music Is

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

#Classical Music #Loud #Migraine

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

#Teacher #Musician #Classical Music

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.
-- Kiesza

#Ears #Classical Music #Music Is

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

#Classical Music

The classical music is soothing and stimulating, good for thinking.
-- Rolonda Watts

#Thinking #Classical Music #Music Is

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

#Musician #Rock Star #Classical Music

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.
-- Theo Hutchcraft

#Classical Music #Genres Of Music #Pops

I also like Western classical music and jazz.
-- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

#Jazz #Classical Music #Western

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.
-- Planningtorock

#Classical Music #Starting #Concerts

I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.
-- Elizabeth Jagger

#Listening #Classical Music

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

#Rocks #Jazz #Classical Music

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.
-- Ledisi

#Grateful #Classical Music #Made