I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't… — Paul Smoker Copy Share Image
The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments… — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
I always find it funny when people say, "I don't really like classical music" or "it doesn't do anything for me." I… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
I like to think that I listen to Classic FM while domestic goddessing and, truth be told, I often do, but you… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Being a classical musician, you can go to school for it; you can go get a degree. Even as a composer, there… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
As a kid, I would listen to anything that had a live orchestra or ensemble playing, so that covered everything from show… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I play classical music almost exclusively. I never mastered jazz or gospel in the way that my mother did. She was a… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance -… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to my parents' albums. Many of them were either classical - Bach, Beethoven and Brahms - or easy… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not.… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
Growing up in a family that listened to almost nothing but classical music had its effects, as well. "California Über Alles," the… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
“Would you think of somebody who you adore, who’s no longer there? A beloved grandmother, a lover — somebody in your life… — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under… — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could… — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
I had 10 years of lessons at the conservatory in Belgium, studying classical music. I learned how to sing, play the piano,… — Lara Fabian Copy Share Image
Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
"Poetry" refers to the quite challenging and quite resistant sets of words put together to be admired and interpreted by people who… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
I think, until I was 16, classical music had just seemed like a little bit of a rhythmic wasteland for me. Coming… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music.… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wanted to be in… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music… — Ji-Hae Park Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family that was very musical, learned the blues and everything like that. And I became a little… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
We learned Russian music, and of course Western European classical music, but nothing from our own Tuvan culture. I think that was… — Albert Kuvezin Copy Share Image
I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical… — Lorin Maazel Copy Share Image
I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an… — Lara Fabian Copy Share Image
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends,… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I listen to either romantic classical music, Brahms or Beethoven or something like Mozart, or I go all the way contemporary and… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I've making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm... footages from different archives and setting moving pictures to… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do… — Arto Lindsay Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I find that jazz loosens up the deep place of my mind, lets me find my own strange rhythms. Generally, I find… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
