Classical music Quotes · Page 5

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

— Alan Vega

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

— Charles Rosen

Classical music thinks in centuries, not four-year terms.

— Stephen Hough

We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.

— Grace Chatto

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

— Dennis Ritchie

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

— Jake Shimabukuro

Despite being a classical musician, I keep poking my nose in other genres of music.

— Shankar Mahadevan

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

— Armando Iannucci

I've got this diverse education, growing up in classical music and existing between that and music that is more visceral, so for…

— Bryce Dessner

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

— Laurence Equilbey

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or…

— Stephen Sondheim

I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so…

— Alicia Keys

I do like classical music, and soft rock, and jazz, which I never listened to when I was 15. Now I like…

— Dmitry Medvedev

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

— Charles Bukowski

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me…

— Gary Lucas

I grew up listening to a lot of classic jazz, and stuff like The Beatles, and old Motown stuff, and a lot…

— Alison Sudol

Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is…

— John Kinsella

As far as using electronics in my music, I have to do that as honestly as possible. Also, I have a broad…

— Anoushka Shankar

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's…

— Pat Metheny

When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really…

— King Krule

Why a musician loves playing jazz or classical music or what makes them happy, and why an artist likes to paint -…

— Elisabeth Moss

If you ever ask me what my all-time dream character is, my answer will be Mia Tansen, the great composer-musician in Hindustani…

— Jackie Shroff

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so…

— Lesley Garrett

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether…

— Penn Jillette

“Try describing a few of the most wildly successful pop albums of the twentieth century without mentioning the artist and title. A…

— Dan Fox

I'm often surprised by classical music and musicians. I've met a large number of them because my wife works for the Boston…

— James Taylor

I write my music with the idea that it will appeal to all of those people, and I want them to go…

— Missy Mazzoli

“Bucket had started his criminal career in Braas, not far from when Allan and his new friends now found themselves. There he…

— Jonas Jonasson

I think that the current climate enables a lot of musicians to do relatively well. Twenty-five years ago, you could be a…

— Moby

“He then expounded a remarkable theory, which had occurred to him while he was playing the clarinet during one of the power…

— Peter Mayle

“Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just music . It's a…

— Marisha Pessl

I started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about…

— Eldar Djangirov

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

— Gregory Maguire

I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet.

— Johnny Flynn

There are a lot of classical musicians in my family, so I grew up with that being kind of normal.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be.

— Lucia Micarelli

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

— Joanna Newsom

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

— Novak Djokovic

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

— Benjamin Zander

“Autumn is a classical music; when it begins, the gravity disappears!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan