Classical Quotes · Page 10

Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.

— Aleksey Igudesman

The Beatles are the classical music of rock n' roll. And rock n' roll is far more widespread than classical will ever…

— Lemmy

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would…

— Ben Harper

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional…

— Gary Burton

Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything.

— Wendell Pierce

If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the…

— Jacques d'Amboise

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

— Edgar Wilson Nye

Classical dance is so pure and beautiful you don't need to add anything to its authenticity or beauty.

— Shakti Mohan

The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order…

— D. B. Weiss

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when…

— Eddie Van Halen

I loved getting classical training in terms of acting. I would've stayed in acting school for the rest of my life if…

— Dane DeHaan

Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible…

— Murray Rothbard

I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history…

— Karen DeCrow

Classical music was very much a part of my life growing up, and it was always playing in the house. And music…

— Laufey

Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I…

— Brian Eno

The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet…

— Randy Bachman

We don't want to limit ourselves to any specific sound like that was before when we were brought up in classical music.

— Ralf Hutter

I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.

— Nina Simone

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

— Shobana

I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix…

— Jackie Evancho

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

— George Orwell

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

— Eva Green

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy.

— Anonymous

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

— Annie Parisse

“Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history,…

— Gustave Flaubert

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect…

— Jon Lord

As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as…

— Roy Harper

I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.

— Anna Ternheim

I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one…

— Aleksey Igudesman

I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can…

— Bill Walton

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything…

— Shuler Hensley

My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I…

— Bryce Dessner

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and…

— Yann Tiersen

If we got into a time machine and went back to the 1700s, classical and baroque music would have been the equivalent…

— Joe Bonamassa

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

— Anne Dudley

My whole life, I've always had one foot in the classical world and one foot in the rock, pop, and folk world.

— Michael Bacon

I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's…

— Jackie Evancho

Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.

— Lloyd Alexander

Of course, there will always be, you know, conservative classical people who will judge you, but you know, who cares about them?

— Luka Sulic

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen