I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and… — Yann Tiersen Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance. — Anne Dudley Copy Share Image
If we got into a time machine and went back to the 1700s, classical and baroque music would have been the equivalent… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's… — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
My whole life, I've always had one foot in the classical world and one foot in the rock, pop, and folk world. — Michael Bacon Copy Share Image
I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?' — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on Classical singing and composition,… — Kesha Rogers Copy Share Image
I go back and research, say, every reference to the Gorgons, and I find what the classical writers said about them and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively.… — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Growing up as a classical musician, you're taught a lot about outreach and about how people aren't being taught music in school.… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
If I switch on the radio and hear some nice classical music, I will sit and listen to it but I don't… — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I am really very fond of Indian classical music though I have spent my teenage years in Bahrain. — Madhura Naik Copy Share Image
The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States,… — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all. — Stjepan Hauser Copy Share Image
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully. — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise… — Caroline Corr Copy Share Image
Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate. — Guler Sabanci Copy Share Image
Well, I very rarely watch classical adaptations, because they usually do very good books, and a lot of the things they do...… — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts. — Sir Mix-a-Lot Copy Share Image
Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
