quotes about Classical Music
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
-- Adam Jones -
Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
-- Alan Vega -
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 -
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The classical music world is so snobbish.
-- Andre RieuSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.
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I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.
-- BirdySource : "Birdy Releases Debut Album". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 16, 2012.
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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 -
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The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.
-- Charles RosenSource : Charles Rosen (2001). “Critical Entertainments”, p.295, Harvard University Press
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I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
-- Eberhard Weber -
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 -
The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.
-- Edgar Wilson NyeSource : Edgar Wilson Nye's stand-up line, 1888.
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My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
-- Elizabeth McGovern -
My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music,
-- Enya -
I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.
-- Eva Green -
I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.
-- Felicity Kendal -
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A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.
-- George Steiner -
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 DudamelSource : "Gustavo Dudamel: 'I'm not the messiah" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2010.
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I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
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That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.
-- Itzhak Perlman -
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Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
-- Jan GarbarekSource : "London jazz festival 2012: Where has Jan Garbarek gone? I miss him" by John Lewis, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.
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I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
-- Joanna Newsom -
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 -
As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.
-- Julie Andrews -
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I love listening to classical music.
-- Katharine McPheeSource : "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. January 8, 2010.
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I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
-- Lee Konitz -
Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.
-- Leila Josefowicz -
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 -
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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 -
I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
-- Novak Djokovic -
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 -
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I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.
-- Slash -
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 -
I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.
-- Yngwie Malmsteen -
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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 -
The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.
-- Frank FairfieldSource : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
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What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.
-- Ian McLagan -
I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.
-- Jeanine TesoriSource : "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.
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You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.
-- Kiesza -
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 -
The classical music is soothing and stimulating, good for thinking.
-- Rolonda Watts -
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.
-- Seymour Stein -
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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 -
I also like Western classical music and jazz.
-- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan -
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.
-- PlanningtorockSource : Source: thequietus.com
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I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.
-- Elizabeth JaggerSource : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
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What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.
-- Simon HelbergSource : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
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I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.
-- LedisiSource : "Ledisi: A Singer's Second Life". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 9, 2011.