Classical Quotes · Page 4

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

— Don Dokken

Any form of classical music is made for youth.

— Ilaiyaraaja

I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.

— Lata Mangeshkar

I've played classical violin since I was 5 years old.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

— Damian Lewis

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

— Birdy

I have experienced heartbreak but not in a classical sense.

— Timothee Chalamet

We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.

— Grace Chatto

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would…

— Ben Harper

Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything.

— Wendell Pierce

If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the…

— Jacques d'Amboise

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional…

— Gary Burton

I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.

— Elisabeth Moss

“Classical music is not really my thing, and I know absolutely nothing about it. If you told me you saw Brendel play…

— David Rosenfelt

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

— Lana Del Rey

What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues,…

— Casey James

I've been lucky that I've performed with a lot of the classical people I've wanted to work with so I'd like to…

— Katherine Jenkins

My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian…

— Ravi Shankar

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the…

— E. L. Doctorow

It's a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of…

— Joshua Roman

I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and…

— Kevin Alejandro

Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home…

— Katherine Jenkins

We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but…

— Richard Hyung-ki Joo

To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but…

— Annette Bening

Classical dance is a growing and ever-evolving art.

— Shobana

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

— Charles Rosen

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

— Peter Tork

Classical music thinks in centuries, not four-year terms.

— Stephen Hough

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

— Herb Alpert

I grew up with a lot of classical music around.

— Kemp Muhl

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

— Oscar Isaac

Deutsche Grammophon really has a grasp of the classical repertoire.

— Hilary Hahn

My dad is into western classical and mother is an Indian classical singer.

— Tanishk Bagchi

I had had a classical education prior to that.

— Skitch Henderson

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

— Dave Brubeck

I had been exposed to classical music my whole life; even before I was born.

— Jason Becker

There's always been a slight twinge of some classical elements in our music.

— Matt Bellamy

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

— Alan Price

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand.

— Michael Gambon