I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to… — Diane Kruger 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
It falls in all the cracks, from classical music to jazz,. Anywhere there's a hole in the floor, my music falls through… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
I think people have the misconception that I hang out in alleyways with balls and chains, but I like to play classical… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats. — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
Post my stint as a sportsman, I found solace in singing and trained for extended hours in Indian classical music. — Harrdy Sandhu Copy Share Image
It's really funny how I've come round to classical music around the back door with my banjo in my hand, and I… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
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
Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument.… — David Garrett Copy Share Image
We are fans of Mozart and Beethoven, as well 'South Park' and Borat. We believe that we can attract many people who… — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
Improvisation is an important part of bluegrass, and I would hasten to add that classical music wasn't always such an improvisational void.… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, what are genres? I've spent my whole life trying to fit into some sort of box.… — Laufey Copy Share Image
One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful… — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
My parents were decent, aspirant first-generation middle class. They read 'Reader's Digest', listened to classical music; my grandparents had a bust of… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one… — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available. — Jeanine Tesori Copy Share Image
Being from a classical environment, I've always been provoked by classical musicians thinking that classical music is so much greater art than… — Matias Tellez Copy Share Image
I love it that my father is such a classical musician and such a traditionalist, and at the same time has had… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
I was able to learn a new language - a new musical language is learning a new language, because it's so extremely… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
I was just moving around the globe, learning classical music and generally doing nothing. I was completely away from glitz and glamour… — Antara Mali Copy Share Image
It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
You know I'm a bit of a dag because I listen to classical music. I recently bought myself an iPod and downloaded… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
I was surrounded by classical music, art and ballet all these things. But they also had a football field and it was… — Carlos Carvalhal Copy Share Image
I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar… — John Fahey Copy Share Image
“Injustice, large and small, was like sour, moldy bread. Consumed often enough, it brought on hunger for the meat of revenge.” — B.V. Lawson Copy Share Image
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times. — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
I finished my university studies with classical music while being in a successful metal band, but that was not an easy task… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
I don't even want to say I'm trying to necessarily popularize classical music, I just want to take this thing, this cello,… — Kevin Olusola Copy Share Image
Regular church-goers are substantially more likely than non-attenders to read, to take newspapers and magazines, to listen to classical music, to attend… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
My greatest influence came from my parents' love of classical music. We listened to a lot of arias and operas growing up. — Lara Fabian 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
“History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work.… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
My whole life has been in classical music, I've been trained to become the best musician possible, play the piece the best,… — Laufey Copy Share Image
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