Classical Quotes · Page 4

I listen to classical music when I need to relax. It depends a lot on mood.

— Tarja Turunen

I listen to anything country and anything classical. Two great extremes.

— Richard Burr

I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.

— David Gilmour

You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.

— Andre Rieu

I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand.

— Michael Gambon

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

— Alan Price

There's always been a slight twinge of some classical elements in our music.

— Matt Bellamy

I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz.

— Corbin Bleu

I trained in London as a classical actor, but you've no idea what way your career will go.

— Aisling Bea

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

— Luka Sulic

I did classical music when I was a teenager, but the experience of performing a classical concert felt too frighteningly pristine for…

— Jon Hopkins

It's wonderful doing concerts in places like New York and London, but I feel a responsibility to also bring my work home,…

— Charles Hazlewood

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

— Laurence Equilbey

Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids.

— David Lee

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of…

— Neil Gaiman

We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which…

— Skitch Henderson

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which…

— Michael Caine

I was very fortunate to have gone to drama school in London for three years, and that was classical training in the…

— Rose Leslie

I did classical singing at school. I did exams in that. I'd sing soprano, and we'd sing in German; we'd do Schubert…

— Jorja Smith

As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was…

— Nina Simone

Our music was, like, Doors-y, but trying to be classical. We all took music classes and tried writing songs, and when we…

— Fab Moretti

I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my…

— Cassie Steele

Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly.…

— Dave Barry

I had been exposed to classical music my whole life; even before I was born.

— Jason Becker

I would say 'Home' is a lot richer and deeper than my earlier classical.

— Anoushka Shankar

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

— Kiesza

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

— Louise Jameson

I studied classical percussion for ten years.

— Alycia Debnam-Carey

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

— David Garrett

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

— Emmy Rossum

I took classical music very seriously as a kid.

— Laufey

In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Kin Hubbard

I started officially learning music when I was 14. I learnt Hindustani classical.

— Shruti Haasan

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

— Dizzy Gillespie

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.

— Slash

Any form of classical music is made for youth.

— Ilaiyaraaja

I have experienced heartbreak but not in a classical sense.

— Timothee Chalamet