Classical music Quotes · Page 5

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

— Kenny G

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

— Park Chan-wook

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

— Eberhard Weber

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

— Luciano Pavarotti

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

— Elisabeth Moss

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

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

— Claude Debussy

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

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with…

— Bobby McFerrin

Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract…

— Bryce Dessner

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably…

— Benjamin Carson

When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock &…

— Jimmy Page

Why English music is being taught in some schools? The government should make arrangements to promote Indian classical music among students.

— Shankar Mahadevan

“Drink a cup of herbal tea, if you like. Listen to some soft classical music and prepare yourself to drift”

— Robin S. Sharma

In Western classical music the idea of holiness, purity, perfection, and total beauty is expressed through clarity of sound - a bell-like…

— Justin Adams

I understand that in people's eyes, classical music is kind of a lost and dying art, but in my eyes, it's like,…

— Owen Pallett

I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if…

— Colin Farrell

I've got a lot of things that are probably obvious, not much outside the box right now. But, I have been listening…

— Hal Ketchum

I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year.…

— Alan Dean Foster

Part of my big message with all this is that if you are alive, you know all you need to know about…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I am very attracted to the United States. Why? Well, as a little kid from Southern Italy, not from a wealthy family,…

— Riccardo Tisci

The way you hold the bow, the way that violinists are trained to produce a note, is really different. I'm not an…

— Bruce Molsky

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

— Jiri Weil

I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody…

— Brian Eno

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

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

— David Lang

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

— David Lang

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

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Terry Teachout

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

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

— Ledisi

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

— Steve Hackett

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

— Renee Fleming

Western classical music and classical dance gel beautifully.

— Shobana

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

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

— Simon Rattle