Classical Quotes · Page 3

I love classical music. It's my stabiliser.

— Sheila Hancock

“Classical music is good for relaxing”

— Adam Anderson

I'm a trained classical baritone.

— Alexander Armstrong

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

— Renee Fleming

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

— Zaha Hadid

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

— Mark Pellegrino

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Classical music is for listening but rock and roll is to have fun with.

— Dave Clark

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

— Kenny G

I have a fairly good collection of paintings, both classical and contemporary.

— Mohanlal

My objective is to master classical and modern music eventually.

— Kai Havertz

I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the…

— Alex Ebert

Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird…

— Planningtorock

“Whatever you establish in this present time, do it with faith! Your beautiful foundation will be worthy, fabulous, and marvelously incredible.”

— D.L. Lewis

Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to…

— Michael Haneke

Classical dance forms and music are slowly going away. It is very important to impart these to children.

— Hema Malini

Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.

— Aleksey Igudesman

Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen…

— Randall Jarrell

The Beatles are the classical music of rock n' roll. And rock n' roll is far more widespread than classical will ever…

— Lemmy

A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner…

— James Joyce

For us, it is all about breaking the boundaries between different genres of music and combining different styles of music and performing…

— Luka Sulic

I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records... we went and watched ballet and orchestras - lots of cool stuff.…

— Courtney Barnett

All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold…

— Gelsey Kirkland

I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal…

— Agnes Martin

We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have…

— Rafael Cruz

It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting…

— Jennifer Grant

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

— Park Chan-wook

Despite being a classical musician, I keep poking my nose in other genres of music.

— Shankar Mahadevan

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

— Jake Shimabukuro

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

— Dennis Ritchie

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

— Stephen Hawking

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

— Floor Jansen

I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

— Joseph Fiennes

“For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Autumn is a classical music; when it begins, the gravity disappears!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

— Nas

I dont think anyone is going to toss me into a classical show.

— Renee Rapp

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

— Benjamin Zander

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

— Joanna Newsom