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
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
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
There's certainly no doubt that commercialism has entered classical music to such a degree that almost no one seems to care anymore… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical students.' There's always… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
Maybe one way I am original is that at heart I really am a classical actor. I haven't had my chance yet… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments… — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
I always find it funny when people say, "I don't really like classical music" or "it doesn't do anything for me." I… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
I like to think that I listen to Classic FM while domestic goddessing and, truth be told, I often do, but you… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in… — Brian McKnight 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not.… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under… — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold… — Gelsey Kirkland Copy Share Image
For us, it is all about breaking the boundaries between different genres of music and combining different styles of music and performing… — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records... we went and watched ballet and orchestras - lots of cool stuff.… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
I think, until I was 16, classical music had just seemed like a little bit of a rhythmic wasteland for me. Coming… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wanted to be in… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music… — Ji-Hae Park Copy Share Image
I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort… — Evan Peters Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family that was very musical, learned the blues and everything like that. And I became a little… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
