Classical Quotes

I'm a trained classical baritone.

— Alexander Armstrong

Jazz is America's classical music.

— Billy Taylor

“Classical music is good for relaxing”

— Adam Anderson

I love classical music. It's my stabiliser.

— Sheila Hancock

I'm not a big classical actor.

— Nigel Hawthorne

A temperate style is alone classical.

— Joseph Joubert

I am a trained classical dancer.

— Upasana Singh

I love listening to classical music.

— Katharine McPhee

When we started the band, it was a classical group.

— Grace Chatto

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

— Colin Greenwood

I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.

— Caroline Shaw

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

— Kin Hubbard

“Do not look at mirage and look inside mirror”

— Dr V V Rao

In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat.

— Anonymous

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

— Jonny Greenwood

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

— Sarah Sutton

We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit…

— Lola Kirke

I'm not a classical player. I don't want to be a classical player. I love to improvise, because things happen that never…

— John McLaughlin

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than…

— Vivien Leigh

I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain…

— Tommy Wiseau

What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes…

— Jeremy Rifkin

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

— Dmitry Medvedev

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

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Yuja Wang

I would like for people to not be stuck by the rules of what is expected of a classical musician. If you…

— Charlie Albright

The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when…

— Steve Vai

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

— Andre Rieu

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

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

— Javed Akhtar

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

“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less…

— Flaubert Gustave

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian…

— A. R. Rahman

We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

“Rufus didn’t pay any attention to the voice back then. At that time, he attributed the voice to his lack of confidence,…

— Steven Decker

“Epic art is founded on action, and the model of a society in which action could play out in greatest freedom was…

— Milan Kundera

I think if there's ever been a time we need music more, it's now. For our kids, it teaches you to take…

— Joshua Bell

My love of classical hit pretty early. I was 13 when it occurred, and that was really the only music I listened…

— Rufus Wainwright

I chose the American ones, more or less the last five years of the silent era, because those are the ones that…

— Michel Hazanavicius