Classical Quotes · Page 6

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

— Jonny Greenwood

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

— Joan Armatrading

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

— Leila Josefowicz

The soundtrack for 'Mr. Fraud' is classical with a decent level of fusion.

— Gopi Sundar

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state

— Frank Zappa

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

— Colin Greenwood

When we started the band, it was a classical group.

— Grace Chatto

“Do not look at mirage and look inside mirror”

— Dr V V Rao

“classical musicians are now as subject to marketing principles as any other performers.”

— Renee Fleming

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.

— Katherine Jenkins

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

— Steve Hackett

When I was 9, I got guitar lessons in my school, just classical guitar. I didn't really like it much. Nowadays, I…

— Declan McKenna

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and…

— Katy Mixon

I grew up partially with classical music but listened to a lot of rock when I was young - I like acoustic,…

— Ludovico Einaudi

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even…

— Alicia Keys

When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

It's like any great medicine that works. It tastes absolutely lousy going down, but ultimately helps and heals you. And that's what…

— Viola Davis

I love dancing to the radio every morning, to start the day with such passion. Otherwise, life is too sad. My little…

— Anna Mouglalis

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about…

— Noam Chomsky

I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music…

— Vanilla Ice

Only directors like Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who make period films, have songs in their movies that facilitate the inclusion of classical dance…

— Remo D'Souza

When I was growing up, until I was 18 or 19, I was totally invested in the classical music world. I had…

— Katie Stelmanis

Music is monophonic in the Eastern world, especially if we're talking about Indian music, Persian music. What we have in classical and…

— Hafez Nazeri

In England, unless I am mistaken, I think some of the politicians who love classical music and opera are a bit loath…

— Simon Rattle

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

— Kin Hubbard

I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.

— Caroline Shaw

Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

— Fran Drescher

I studied classical violin and voice until I was 18 and by then I had had my fill.

— Sunny Ozell

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

— Jim Coleman

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

— Wang Leehom

I've always loved mixing Middle Eastern instruments into a classical orchestra.

— Alexandre Desplat

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I studied classical music in the Conservatory of Paris.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s.

— Howard Shore

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

— Felicity Kendal

I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.

— Ha-Joon Chang

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

— Lari White

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

— Alison Krauss

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

— Elizabeth McGovern

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

— Aldous Huxley