I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well. — Alison Krauss Copy Share Image
My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating. — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college. — Lari White Copy Share Image
I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be… — Jim Sullivan Copy Share Image
As a kid, I loved classical music. Composers like Beethoven were like rock stars to me. Then there were the real rock… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
“A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
The abundance of Roman historical mysteries contrasts with the surprising paucity of crime novels set in classical Greece. — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I was classically trained. But more than just the fact that I play violin, there's a lot of classical elements in the… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
Classical scores go up and down; they're kind of hysterical in a way. And movie scores are much more - they just… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
There is a reactionary conservative side of classical music, which is not the most exciting side of it. The side that draws… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Classical music was very much a part of my life growing up, and it was always playing in the house. And music… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I loved getting classical training in terms of acting. I would've stayed in acting school for the rest of my life if… — Dane DeHaan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
My love of classical hit pretty early. I was 13 when it occurred, and that was really the only music I listened… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“Epic art is founded on action, and the model of a society in which action could play out in greatest freedom was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Rufus didn’t pay any attention to the voice back then. At that time, he attributed the voice to his lack of confidence,… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
I think if there's ever been a time we need music more, it's now. For our kids, it teaches you to take… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
“I found a brief piece of by Antonio Vivaldi around this time which became my ‘Pinhead Mood Music’. Called Al Santo Sepolcro… — Doug Bradley Copy Share Image
