Classical music Quotes · Page 7

“classical musicians are now as subject to marketing principles as any other performers.”

— Renee Fleming

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

— Yngwie Malmsteen

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

— Ledisi

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

— Kenny G

Classical music is for listening but rock and roll is to have fun with.

— Dave Clark

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

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

— Eberhard Weber

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

— Luciano Pavarotti

I like to get away from noise, although I will play noisy music in my car to keep myself awake. But my…

— Chuck Panozzo

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or…

— Stephen Sondheim

I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so…

— Alicia Keys

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

— Charles Bukowski

I do like classical music, and soft rock, and jazz, which I never listened to when I was 15. Now I like…

— Dmitry Medvedev

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me…

— Gary Lucas

From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how…

— Kathleen Battle

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

— Agnes Obel

Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact…

— Eric Weiner

You don't need any specialized education and you don't need to know anything about the world in which I work. I think…

— Jennifer Higdon

I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview…

— Kim Him-chan

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether…

— Penn Jillette

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so…

— Lesley Garrett

“There are ominous signs about the future of classical music. The record companies are facing threats from piracy and unauthorized downloading. It’s…

— Renee Fleming

“Having considered Handel's tumultuous opera career and his first term at Covent Garden in the 1730s, perhaps we may dare to suggest…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque…

— Elie Wiesel

“Then I met David Janko on the station. He was a young white in his early twenties. I made the mistake of…

— Charles Bukowski

Normally classical music is set up so you have professionals on a stage and a bunch of audience - it's us versus…

— David Lang

Because I was a chemistry student and was never supposed to be a musician, I always felt like I was an outsider…

— David Lang

“My gaze returns to earth and when it does, it’s her eyes I see. Not the way I used to see them—around…

— Gayle Forman

That authentic experience that happens both in the artist and in the audience you can classify as a mystical experience. You can…

— Janaka Stucky

I've been extremely lucky to work with Elmer Bernstein, Howard Shore over the years, but I've always imagined films with my own…

— Martin Scorsese

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

— Park Chan-wook

I like - I actually love classical music very much.

— Julie Andrews

I have imbibed my love for Spanish and Indian classical music from my mom.

— Tanishk Bagchi

I love Western classical music - I grew up on that thanks to my parents who loved it too.

— Shobana

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

— Edgar Wilson Nye

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

— Charles Hazlewood

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

— Eva Green

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

— Victor Hugo

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

— Cass McCombs

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

— Susanna Phillips