Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not… — John Berger Copy Share Image
So many people report to be contemporary dancers, and they're not. They are sort of jazz dancers that feel like they're throwing… — Nigel Lythgoe Copy Share Image
Only directors like Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who make period films, have songs in their movies that facilitate the inclusion of classical dance… — Remo D'Souza Copy Share Image
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about… — Noam Chomsky 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
Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find… — Jerry Lee Lewis 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
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
Music is monophonic in the Eastern world, especially if we're talking about Indian music, Persian music. What we have in classical and… — Hafez Nazeri Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just listen to classical pieces of music to take me away from my work. That's what I kind of do… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classical and metal both, I remember… — Amy Lee Copy Share Image
Our intention is to develop more subtlety in contemporary electronic sounds. We don't like nostalgic projects. We have disparate interests and many… — Thomas Koner Copy Share Image
Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never… — Joe Slovo Copy Share Image
We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I've been lucky that I've performed with a lot of the classical people I've wanted to work with so I'd like to… — Katherine Jenkins 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
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
My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
It's a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of… — Joshua Roman Copy Share Image
I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and… — Kevin Alejandro 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
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
A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
For us, it is all about breaking the boundaries between different genres of music and combining different styles of music and performing… — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records... we went and watched ballet and orchestras - lots of cool stuff.… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold… — Gelsey Kirkland Copy Share Image
The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing like the human… — Luka Sulic 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
I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music… — Ji-Hae Park Copy Share Image
I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort… — Evan Peters Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family that was very musical, learned the blues and everything like that. And I became a little… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
“If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries.… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical… — Lorin Maazel Copy Share Image
I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
