Classical Quotes · Page 9

What I don't find compelling is doing classical plays that everyone already knows - and people are following with the text in…

— Joseph Fiennes

Ask about music growing up, I'll tell you I grew up playing classical music, and I didn't grow up in a musical…

— Maggie Rogers

Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those.

— Luka Sulic

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being…

— Buddy Rich

I studied dance for about 15 years, various disciplines, with classical ballet as my primary.

— Dana Loesch

I studied classical guitar in school, and that type of stuff has led to writing for Kronos.

— Bryce Dessner

I adore the classical pieces of our culture. The Greek and Roman are still inside and everywhere; it's impossible to disconnect.

— Alessandro Michele

I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to…

— B.o.B

We are fans of Mozart and Beethoven, as well 'South Park' and Borat. We believe that we can attract many people who…

— Aleksey Igudesman

I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' - if…

— Charles Hazlewood

I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical…

— Christine Woods

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through…

— Diane Kruger

I like to incorporate classical songs that people know and throw a beat and some guitars on it to make it real…

— Alicia Keys

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic…

— Diane Paulus

In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of…

— Ravi Shankar

I know that the classical world has resisted film composers throwing their hat into the classical concert music ring. And you know…

— James Newton Howard

There was a time when people were afraid that film music would totally displace classical music.

— Y. G. Mahendran

I can sing any song today unless it is classical, because classical needs a lot of training and I haven't learnt that.…

— KK

I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

— Ludovico Einaudi

Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be.

— Lucia Micarelli

My whole life has been in classical music, I've been trained to become the best musician possible, play the piece the best,…

— Laufey

The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes…

— David Finckel

There are a lot of classical musicians in my family, so I grew up with that being kind of normal.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.

— Brian Greene

It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was…

— Lionel Richie

I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so…

— Matt Schulze

I used to sing classical music to the flowers in the garden and imagine they were all different parts of the orchestra.…

— Joe Lycett

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

— Catherine Deneuve

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before…

— Kent Haruf

I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so…

— Bryce Dessner

“Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical itself. It's interesting to see that development.”

— Bjork

I have been singing since I was a child, and I am a trained Hindustani classical singer.

— Parineeti Chopra

Alchemy is one of the good quote-unquote south-Asian experiences in that it has a wide variety of classical to experimental music.

— Anoushka Shankar

I never really had a classical saxophone set-up. I just had a middle of the road set up.

— Jon Gordon

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

— Gregory Maguire

My greatest influence came from my parents' love of classical music. We listened to a lot of arias and operas growing up.

— Lara Fabian

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian…

— A. R. Rahman

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock…

— Moira Kelly

What makes one type of music classical and one bluegrass and one folk - these things aren't what's important.

— Chris Thile