Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to. — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music. — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad! — Mika Copy Share Image
Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much. — Benny Green Copy Share Image
I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or… — Anna Meredith Copy Share Image
'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really… — King Krule Copy Share Image
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is… — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a… — Malcolm Arnold Copy Share Image
You don't need any specialized education and you don't need to know anything about the world in which I work. I think… — Jennifer Higdon Copy Share Image
It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it. — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way… — Jane Chen Copy Share Image
A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at… — Laila Robins Copy Share Image
I'm trained in classical music, and my favourites have always been rock n' roll and blues, but I've grown up with different… — Shruti Haasan Copy Share Image
For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life. — Questlove Copy Share Image
When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel. — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical, de Tocqueville liberalism. — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical… — John Cale Copy Share Image
My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically… — Cory Arcangel Copy Share Image
If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal… — Eric Close Copy Share Image
