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
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
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
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
In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In my 20s, I became obsessed with the role-playing game 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms,' named after a classical Chinese novel, and… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
As more people get into indie bands and alternative music, they're also getting more into other genres that fit those categories, like… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence… — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds… — Caroline Shaw 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
My dad was a really good classical guitarist. He took lessons with a student of Andre Segovia. — Jason Becker Copy Share Image
I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
I got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music.You should know a bunch of music and… — Bruno Mars 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
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 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
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
Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much. — Benny Green 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
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
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
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
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
What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud. — Ian McLagan Copy Share Image
