A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
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
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
I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do… — Arto Lindsay Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, until I was 18 or 19, I was totally invested in the classical music world. I had… — Katie Stelmanis Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call myself at all as a crossover artist - I kind of hate that word - but in a way,… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
In England, unless I am mistaken, I think some of the politicians who love classical music and opera are a bit loath… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
There's been a time where I was like, I wanna be a folk singer; no, I wanna sing soul. I want to… — Khalid Copy Share Image
Western classical music had long known syncopation. But no one had felt compelled to snap his fingers to music before American jazz… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a… — Paul Haslinger Copy Share Image
“Oh, it’s a fine life, the life of the gutter. It’s real: it’s warm: it’s violent: you can feel it through the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
“In his entirely personal experience of them, English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I love classical music, but I hated classical guitar. But I like flamenco, because there was something else there going on. It… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens… — Steve Hackett Copy Share Image
Some people dig jazz, some people dig classical music, some people dig rock. Everyone is so concerned about who they like. They… — Hiromi Uehara Copy Share Image
I went to a music academy in Los Angeles, and some friends started playing me Ravel and Prokofiev, who I liked, but… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
When working with classical musicians, it is important to be clear as possible in the score about what my intentions are. Because… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not.… — Lola Kirke 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
“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
The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under… — Hannah Simone 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
I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert… — Howard Shore 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
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
"Poetry" refers to the quite challenging and quite resistant sets of words put together to be admired and interpreted by people who… — Stephen Burt 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 can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could… — Nigel Kennedy 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
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
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
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
