When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
When you learn Indian classical music, sometimes it takes decades to perfect a raga. — Richa Chadha Copy Share Image
From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how… — Kathleen Battle 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 loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an… — Lara Fabian 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
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
Part of my big message with all this is that if you are alive, you know all you need to know about… — Michael Tilson Thomas 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
[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in… — Jon Gordon 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
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
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'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it. — Ledisi Copy Share Image
My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on… — Amanda Eliasch 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
Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Being a classical musician I'm fascinated with how my colleagues, not just singers, but every musician finds ways to express something else… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I would like for people to not be stuck by the rules of what is expected of a classical musician. If you… — Charlie Albright Copy Share Image
Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
People think you go home and be a celeb, sipping Laurent-Perrier and listening to classical music. You don't. You go home and… — Gok Wan Copy Share Image
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