Classical music Quotes · Page 7

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

— Eberhard Weber

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

— Park Chan-wook

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

— Kenny G

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Classical music is for listening but rock and roll is to have fun with.

— Dave Clark

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

— Charles Hazlewood

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

— Victor Hugo

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

— Eva Green

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

Contrary to popular opinion, classical music does not have to be enjoyed amid exclusive circles, there need not be any snobbishness attached…

— Andre Rieu

I like to get away from noise, although I will play noisy music in my car to keep myself awake. But my…

— Chuck Panozzo

I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.

— Ry Cooder

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings…

— Alan Hollinghurst

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

— Gustavo Dudamel

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

— Eric Weiner

The whole thing of singing on my own has been accidental and random. I sang a huge amount as a kid, and…

— Sam Amidon

You don't need any specialized education and you don't need to know anything about the world in which I work. I think…

— Jennifer Higdon

I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview…

— Kim Him-chan

I would say I take a lot of inspiration from jazz and I borrow a lot of principles from it and classical…

— Laufey

I have very eclectic tastes. I love soul and Motown; I listen to some rap - Stormzy, Tinie Tempah, Drake. I also…

— David Lammy

The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I…

— Ken Hensley

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

I've been extremely lucky to work with Elmer Bernstein, Howard Shore over the years, but I've always imagined films with my own…

— Martin Scorsese

I like - I actually love classical music very much.

— Julie Andrews

I have imbibed my love for Spanish and Indian classical music from my mom.

— Tanishk Bagchi

I love Western classical music - I grew up on that thanks to my parents who loved it too.

— Shobana

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

— Edgar Wilson Nye

I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.

— Elizabeth Jagger

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

— Cass McCombs

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

— Susanna Phillips

We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

— Simon Rattle

I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

— Gary Oldman

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way…

— Jane Chen

I'm trained in classical music, and my favourites have always been rock n' roll and blues, but I've grown up with different…

— Shruti Haasan

“Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.”

— B.V. Lawson