Classical music Quotes · Page 6

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

Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.

— Frank Zappa

What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.

— Ian McLagan

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

— Floor Jansen

There was a time when people were afraid that film music would totally displace classical music.

— Y. G. Mahendran

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

— Jan Garbarek

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

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

— Alison Sudol

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

— Agnes Obel

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

— Nina Simone

Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has,…

— Yuja Wang

In western classical music with an orchestra, you focus the orchestra on melodies and harmony. In African music, the biggest focus is…

— Ludwig Goransson

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular…

— Sheri L. Dew

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist…

— Serj Tankian

“Having considered Handel's tumultuous opera career and his first term at Covent Garden in the 1730s, perhaps we may dare to suggest…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque…

— Elie Wiesel

I think sometimes when you speak about something like 'Indian classical music' and 'ragas,' and all of that's new to people, it…

— Anoushka Shankar

“There are ominous signs about the future of classical music. The record companies are facing threats from piracy and unauthorized downloading. It’s…

— Renee Fleming

I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I…

— Lady Gaga

My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that…

— Kevin Johnson

There are three virtuous styles of music; classical, jazz and heavy metal. I do love classical music but I don't listen to…

— Gregor Schwellenbach

Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact…

— Eric Weiner

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

— Eldar Djangirov

“What about concerts and opera performances? Nowadays these bring him little pleasure [...] These people have no interest in classical music -…

— Jiri Weil

“My gaze returns to earth and when it does, it’s her eyes I see. Not the way I used to see them—around…

— Gayle Forman

That authentic experience that happens both in the artist and in the audience you can classify as a mystical experience. You can…

— Janaka Stucky

The average age of the Jazz audience is increasing rapidly. Rapidly enough to suggest that there is no replacement among young people.…

— Terry Teachout

“Then I met David Janko on the station. He was a young white in his early twenties. I made the mistake of…

— Charles Bukowski

Normally classical music is set up so you have professionals on a stage and a bunch of audience - it's us versus…

— David Lang

Because I was a chemistry student and was never supposed to be a musician, I always felt like I was an outsider…

— David Lang

“classical musicians are now as subject to marketing principles as any other performers.”

— Renee Fleming

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

— Steve Hackett

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

— Claude Debussy

They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

— Edgar Wilson Nye

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music,

— Enya

I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.

— Elisabeth Moss

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

— Eberhard Weber