If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music. — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating. — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music. — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. — Nina Simone 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
Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical… — Sukhwinder Singh Copy Share Image
Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life. — Questlove Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of music composers to add some classical music elements into their songs to make the music genre popular. — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way… — Jane Chen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.” — B.V. Lawson Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so… — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I'd never had in my life. Seeing myself in… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by… — Tom Glazer 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
My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
Ever since we got married, my wife has tried to change me. She got me to stop drinking, smoking and running around… — Mark Copy Share Image
Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
“Can you please also give me instructions for dancing?” “Excuse me?” “I need instructions for dancing. Like how do I move my… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I hate Christmas. Everything is designed for families, romance, warmth, emotion and presents, and if you have no boyfriend, no money, your… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
“You both love Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Hawthorne and Melville, Flaubert and Stendahl, but at that stage of your life you cannot stomach… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Finally, every society develops a system of aesthetic standards that get manifested in everything from decorative art, music, and dance to the… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
“Politics will always mean more to the poor. Always. That's why we strike and march, and despair when our young say they… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
My goal is to bring jazz and classical music to my generation through a more accessible road. — Laufey Copy Share Image
I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning. — William Mapother Copy Share Image
Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort. — Leila Josefowicz Copy Share Image
If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Classical music is for listening but rock and roll is to have fun with. — Dave Clark Copy Share Image
For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
