Classical music Quotes · Page 6

“Autumn is a classical music; when it begins, the gravity disappears!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.

— Frank Zappa

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

— Ian McLagan

There was a time when people were afraid that film music would totally displace classical music.

— Y. G. Mahendran

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

— Floor Jansen

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

— Jan Garbarek

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

— Joanna Newsom

Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be.

— Lucia Micarelli

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

— Moby

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock…

— Ronnie Milsap

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is,…

— Sonny Rollins

Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has,…

— Yuja Wang

In western classical music with an orchestra, you focus the orchestra on melodies and harmony. In African music, the biggest focus is…

— Ludwig Goransson

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular…

— Sheri L. Dew

Contrary to popular opinion, classical music does not have to be enjoyed amid exclusive circles, there need not be any snobbishness attached…

— Andre Rieu

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist…

— Serj Tankian

Generally, we tend to believe that royalty is only for mainstream Hindi commercial cinema music and maybe some popular ghazal singer or…

— Javed Akhtar

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not…

— Mark Twain

As far as using electronics in my music, I have to do that as honestly as possible. Also, I have a broad…

— Anoushka Shankar

When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really…

— King Krule

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's…

— Pat Metheny

Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is…

— John Kinsella

Ilaignan,' the script of which has been penned by Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, is a period film that is set in the…

— Vidyasagar

The whole thing of singing on my own has been accidental and random. I sang a huge amount as a kid, and…

— Sam Amidon

I think that the current climate enables a lot of musicians to do relatively well. Twenty-five years ago, you could be a…

— Moby

“HIGGINS. It's all you'll get until you stop being a common idiot. If you're going to be a lady, you'll have to…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Question : YOU HAVE DEFINED YOURSELF AS THE RICH MAN'S GURU. DON'T THE OTHER PEOPLE INTEREST YOU? ARE THE RICH PARTICULARLY IN…

— Osho

I started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about…

— Eldar Djangirov

“Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just music . It's a…

— Marisha Pessl

“What about concerts and opera performances? Nowadays these bring him little pleasure [...] These people have no interest in classical music -…

— Jiri Weil

I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody…

— Brian Eno

The average age of the Jazz audience is increasing rapidly. Rapidly enough to suggest that there is no replacement among young people.…

— Terry Teachout

There are a lot of classical musicians in my family, so I grew up with that being kind of normal.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

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

— Novak Djokovic

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

— Benjamin Zander

They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

— Edgar Wilson Nye

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

— Enya

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

— Claude Debussy

I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.

— Elisabeth Moss

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

— Steve Hackett