Classical Quotes · Page 5

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

— Damian Lewis

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

— Birdy

I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.

— Lata Mangeshkar

I've played classical violin since I was 5 years old.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

— Herb Alpert

I grew up with a lot of classical music around.

— Kemp Muhl

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

— Peter Tork

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

— Charles Rosen

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.

— Miguel

I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

— Gustav Holst

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a…

— Charles Hazlewood

I think there are people who use classical music to say, 'I am better than you, because I know all the rules…

— Andre Rieu

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 started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or…

— Stephen Sondheim

Of course we had the best possible classical education, which gave us a very strong foundation and tradition. But we also learned…

— Luka Sulic

There has been 32 isms since the advent of cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the…

— Mark Tobey

A lot of people ask how I ended up doing classical music given that I'm in a rock band. The truth is…

— Bryce Dessner

A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the…

— Jamie Foxx

Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been…

— Zedd

Andres Segovia, the great name for guitar, he put classical guitar on the map. He was the proponent of it, the best…

— George Benson

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock…

— Ronnie Milsap

I've always been a lover of classical music ever since I was an early teenager I suppose. I remember the very first…

— George Brandis

Classical music thinks in centuries, not four-year terms.

— Stephen Hough

We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.

— Grace Chatto

Classical dance is a growing and ever-evolving art.

— Shobana

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

— Dave Brubeck

I had had a classical education prior to that.

— Skitch Henderson

Deutsche Grammophon really has a grasp of the classical repertoire.

— Hilary Hahn

My dad is into western classical and mother is an Indian classical singer.

— Tanishk Bagchi

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

— Oscar Isaac

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

— Stephen Hawking

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

— Dennis Ritchie

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

— Jake Shimabukuro

Despite being a classical musician, I keep poking my nose in other genres of music.

— Shankar Mahadevan

“Autumn is a classical music; when it begins, the gravity disappears!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

— Joseph Fiennes

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

— Floor Jansen