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 abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version. — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments. — Guy Gavriel Kay 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
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
“I'm not saying anything against the Modern side. Modern and Classical, they are equal, and each provides for a function in life. You must make your free choice. Not everyone is capable of a Classical education. You must make your choice quite freely.” — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It… — GRiZ Copy Share Image
I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have the core classical… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
Maybe one way I am original is that at heart I really am a classical actor. I haven't had my chance yet… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments… — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
I like to think that I listen to Classic FM while domestic goddessing and, truth be told, I often do, but you… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s. — Christian McKay Copy Share Image
I did classical music when I was a teenager, but the experience of performing a classical concert felt too frighteningly pristine for… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all. — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
I trained in London as a classical actor, but you've no idea what way your career will go. — Aisling Bea Copy Share Image
Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as… — Klaus Nomi Copy Share Image
I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz. — Corbin Bleu Copy Share Image
“This is why the classical of the jazz music station plays? to give a ground of meaning to our pain?” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I always find it funny when people say, "I don't really like classical music" or "it doesn't do anything for me." I… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical students.' There's always… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
There's certainly no doubt that commercialism has entered classical music to such a degree that almost no one seems to care anymore… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career,… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful… — Sarah Monette Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to my parents' albums. Many of them were either classical - Bach, Beethoven and Brahms - or easy… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical… — Carla Hall Copy Share Image
We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience,… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
I play classical music almost exclusively. I never mastered jazz or gospel in the way that my mother did. She was a… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
