Classical music Quotes · Page 8

I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music.

— Andre Previn

I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

— Gary Oldman

We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

— Simon Rattle

Western classical music and classical dance gel beautifully.

— Shobana

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

— Elizabeth Jagger

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

— Aleksey Igudesman

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got…

— Marianne Faithfull

I grew up listening to a lot of classic jazz, and stuff like The Beatles, and old Motown stuff, and a lot…

— Alison Sudol

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

— Nina Simone

One of the struggles that I have with classical music is the way one thinks about a recapitulation. There's always this idea…

— Julia Holter

I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it…

— Hugh Laurie

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

— Satyajit Ray

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

— Maurice Sendak

I think sometimes when you speak about something like 'Indian classical music' and 'ragas,' and all of that's new to people, it…

— Anoushka Shankar

I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I…

— Lady Gaga

There are three virtuous styles of music; classical, jazz and heavy metal. I do love classical music but I don't listen to…

— Gregor Schwellenbach

My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that…

— Kevin Johnson

I do not think classical music faces any threat because new music is being made through computer, as the real charm of…

— Adnan Sami

I don't want to put a name on my music. Other people can put a name on what I do. It's just…

— Hiromi Uehara

For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical…

— Aleksey Igudesman

“There's an expression in classical music. It goes, 'We went out to the meadow.' It's for those evenings that can only be…

— John Green

Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.

— Benny Green

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like…

— Danny Fox

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a…

— Malcolm Arnold

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being…

— Lesley Manville

I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.

— Ry Cooder

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with…

— Bobby McFerrin

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings…

— Alan Hollinghurst

It is the responsibility of music composers to add some classical music elements into their songs to make the music genre popular.

— Shankar Mahadevan

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

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way…

— Jane Chen

“Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.”

— B.V. Lawson

I'm trained in classical music, and my favourites have always been rock n' roll and blues, but I've grown up with different…

— Shruti Haasan

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

Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical…

— Sukhwinder Singh

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't…

— Dave Brubeck

My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on…

— Amanda Eliasch

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.

— George A. Romero