Classical Quotes · Page 6

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

— Joanna Newsom

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

— Don Dokken

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

— Benjamin Zander

I dont think anyone is going to toss me into a classical show.

— Renee Rapp

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

— Nas

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

— Janina Gavankar

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

— Jane Siberry

I was a classical dancer and acting came naturally to me.

— Rimi Sen

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

— Charles Bukowski

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 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 don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

— Agnes Obel

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

— Aleksey Igudesman

I grew up listening to a lot of classic jazz, and stuff like The Beatles, and old Motown stuff, and a lot…

— Alison Sudol

One of the struggles that I have with classical music is the way one thinks about a recapitulation. There's always this idea…

— Julia Holter

Early on, I started with classical voice and had that wonderful foundation. For where I wanted to go at that time, there…

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Yuja Wang

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

— Andre Rieu

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

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

— Javed Akhtar

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

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got…

— Marianne Faithfull

I play a lot of classical music around the house.

— Nancy Wilson

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

— Mark Pellegrino

I've studied classical singing, but not to a great extent.

— Floor Jansen

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

— Renee Fleming

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

— Zaha Hadid

It takes a lifetime and a half to master the classical guitar.

— Julian Bream

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

— Kenny G

Classical music is for listening but rock and roll is to have fun with.

— Dave Clark

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

— Park Chan-wook

I have a fairly good collection of paintings, both classical and contemporary.

— Mohanlal

My objective is to master classical and modern music eventually.

— Kai Havertz

I like - I actually love classical music very much.

— Julie Andrews

The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.

— Robert McKee

I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

— Laila Robins