Classical ballet is very extreme. You're doing it six days a week, and it's a kind of obsession of perfecting a move.… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an… — Lara Fabian Copy Share Image
As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the… — Matt Schulze Copy Share Image
The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
Being from a classical environment, I've always been provoked by classical musicians thinking that classical music is so much greater art than… — Matias Tellez Copy Share Image
Any material can be treated in any number of ways. Sometimes I might hear something, or someone else might hear something, and… — John Dieterich Copy Share Image
Home' was a special album for very specific reasons. It is an homage to my father. And it is the first classical… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
Classical is a more refined and structured dance form. Folk is made for celebration. That's not a very competitive dance form. Though… — Shakti Mohan Copy Share Image
My father did not bother that I play not a classical music. He always congratulated me for my development in music, I… — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Germany, so I was classically trained. Classical has been deep in me from a totally early… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I did stand-up for a long time, and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage… — Kevin Durand Copy Share Image
When you look at classical structures, they're often linked to literature, music, or a poem. They were constructed by master builders, which… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music… — Yanni Copy Share Image
Some of the young kids look for one hit to be a star; that what they're known for the rest of their… — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
I believe that classical music comes through listening and practice, and it can be fun both for the singer or performer and… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one… — Don Bluth Copy Share Image
Part of my mission is simply that: to bring the world of the arts, particularly classical music, closer to people so they… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Maybe one way I am original is that at heart I really am a classical actor. I haven't had my chance yet… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
I like to think that I listen to Classic FM while domestic goddessing and, truth be told, I often do, but you… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
I always find it funny when people say, "I don't really like classical music" or "it doesn't do anything for me." I… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments… — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
There's certainly no doubt that commercialism has entered classical music to such a degree that almost no one seems to care anymore… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical students.' There's always… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career,… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful… — Sarah Monette Copy Share Image
Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience,… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
I play classical music almost exclusively. I never mastered jazz or gospel in the way that my mother did. She was a… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical… — Carla Hall Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to my parents' albums. Many of them were either classical - Bach, Beethoven and Brahms - or easy… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
