Classical music Quotes · Page 8

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

— Gregory Maguire

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

— Armando Iannucci

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Despite being a classical musician, I keep poking my nose in other genres of music.

— Shankar Mahadevan

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

— Jake Shimabukuro

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

— Dennis Ritchie

“Frank Sinatra, for instance, who had a wide knowledge of classical music, revered Vaughan Williams and the composer’s Job in particular,”

— Alain Frogley

There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds…

— Anonymous

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I…

— Ian Anderson

I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the…

— Jascha Heifetz

I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the…

— Leon Russell

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Iceland is so small; classical musicians play on pop projects and pop musicians play with jazz musicians.

— Laufey

I come from a small village and have had no formal training in music or any classes from the masters of Indian…

— Ilaiyaraaja

Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular…

— Andrea Bocelli

There's so many different styles and facets of the 360-degree musical sphere to listen to. From tribal to classical music, it's all…

— Jimmy Page

My basic grammar is in Indian classical music, Carnatic music, and Hindustani music, but I don't believe that that is the only…

— Shankar Mahadevan

Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to…

— Pete Seeger

It is interesting that our biggest fans are the greatest names of the classical music scene, such as Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen,…

— Aleksey Igudesman

You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone…

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10…

— Carlo Grante

My father is doing a radio program - classical music. He has a beautiful speaking voice and that's his passion in life,…

— Olivia Newton-John

I have a great liking for the Chamba folk music, which depicts the beauty of women and the mountains with a touch…

— Mohit Chauhan

Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing…

— Bryce Dessner

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

— James Brown

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

— Allan Bloom

I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.

— Nicki Minaj

But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is…

— Van Cliburn

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

— Jimmy Page

I come from a very strenuous, strict, disciplined classical music background. My grandfather, noted Carnatic classical exponent Dr. Sripada Pinakapani, was a…

— Chinmayi

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

— Horace Silver

Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly.…

— Dave Barry

I did classical music when I was a teenager, but the experience of performing a classical concert felt too frighteningly pristine for…

— Jon Hopkins

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

— Luka Sulic

I figured, if someone wants to do classical music, or blues, or jazz, they move to an area where that's popular, and…

— Jimmie Allen

I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else.…

— Jessye Norman

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which…

— Michael Caine

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my…

— Suzi Quatro

My musical roots and inspiration lie not in rock n' roll or metal music, but first and foremost in classical music, balalaika,…

— Varg Vikernes

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

— Wynton Marsalis