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
No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball… — Lawrence M. Krauss 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
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
We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience,… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something… — Michael Tilson Thomas 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 went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical… — Carla Hall Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful… — Sarah Monette Copy Share Image
Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career,… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
My father did not bother that I play not a classical music. He always congratulated me for my development in music, I… — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
Any material can be treated in any number of ways. Sometimes I might hear something, or someone else might hear something, and… — John Dieterich Copy Share Image
Home' was a special album for very specific reasons. It is an homage to my father. And it is the first classical… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
Classical is a more refined and structured dance form. Folk is made for celebration. That's not a very competitive dance form. Though… — Shakti Mohan Copy Share Image
The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
Being from a classical environment, I've always been provoked by classical musicians thinking that classical music is so much greater art than… — Matias Tellez Copy Share Image
Part of my mission is simply that: to bring the world of the arts, particularly classical music, closer to people so they… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one… — Don Bluth Copy Share Image
When you look at classical structures, they're often linked to literature, music, or a poem. They were constructed by master builders, which… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music… — Yanni Copy Share Image
Some of the young kids look for one hit to be a star; that what they're known for the rest of their… — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
I believe that classical music comes through listening and practice, and it can be fun both for the singer or performer and… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
I did stand-up for a long time, and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage… — Kevin Durand Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Germany, so I was classically trained. Classical has been deep in me from a totally early… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Regular church-goers are substantially more likely than non-attenders to read, to take newspapers and magazines, to listen to classical music, to attend… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I… — Jim Sullivan Copy Share Image
Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music… — Matthew Sweet Copy Share Image
The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
I feel that classical music should be a more recognizable part of everyone’s entertainment. It has been my hope that through live… — Jose Iturbi Copy Share Image
