I find that jazz loosens up the deep place of my mind, lets me find my own strange rhythms. Generally, I find… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
I listen to either romantic classical music, Brahms or Beethoven or something like Mozart, or I go all the way contemporary and… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I've making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm... footages from different archives and setting moving pictures to… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family that was very musical, learned the blues and everything like that. And I became a little… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I think, until I was 16, classical music had just seemed like a little bit of a rhythmic wasteland for me. Coming… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music.… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wanted to be in… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
We learned Russian music, and of course Western European classical music, but nothing from our own Tuvan culture. I think that was… — Albert Kuvezin Copy Share Image
In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
I had 10 years of lessons at the conservatory in Belgium, studying classical music. I learned how to sing, play the piano,… — Lara Fabian Copy Share Image
Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
“Would you think of somebody who you adore, who’s no longer there? A beloved grandmother, a lover — somebody in your life… — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
Growing up in a family that listened to almost nothing but classical music had its effects, as well. "California Über Alles," the… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
Western classical music is participative. Look at the number of people who are involved in a symphony. — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom,… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life… — Bernard Holland Copy Share Image
When I need some energy in the morning I can put a metal CD in my player, because it gets me going!… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
“Listening to classical music. I thought it might be soothing, but it’s really irritating and has no proper tune.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did classical music when I was a teenager, but the experience of performing a classical concert felt too frighteningly pristine for… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
When you learn Indian classical music, sometimes it takes decades to perfect a raga. — Richa Chadha Copy Share Image
Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“Do you think if two people liked the same thing, it could bring them closer together?" "Certainly... Take classical music, for instance...… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
The conservatory professors thought everything should sound like French and German symphonies. But to my ear, bouzouki songs, which tell the sufferings… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
There should be no boundaries in your relationship with sound. Often it's not about the music itself but the context in which… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I figured, if someone wants to do classical music, or blues, or jazz, they move to an area where that's popular, and… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I think there are people who use classical music to say, 'I am better than you, because I know all the rules… — Andre Rieu Copy Share Image
The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
Ever since we got married, my wife has tried to change me. She got me to stop drinking, smoking and running around… — Mark Copy Share Image
