I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Being a classical musician, you can go to school for it; you can go get a degree. Even as a composer, there… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I was finishing up at High School of Performing Arts and finally, by the end of junior year and start of senior… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life.… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
In movies, the composers and decision makers are different, so we don't come across classical songs often in films due to lack… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I found my tribe of artists - people who were outspoken and not afraid to say what they thought,… — Cote de Pablo Copy Share Image
When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to… — Arto Lindsay Copy Share Image
There's a great energy and drive that takes precedence in a lot of rock and pop. It's about making a strong visceral… — Joshua Roman Copy Share Image
Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy, I think… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
When I did 'Amadeus,' I hadn't done a play for five years. And I was so happy doing it and felt so… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
I did everything I could to not bring in any of the - any of the technical things I got from classical… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
“I'm not saying anything against the Modern side. Modern and Classical, they are equal, and each provides for a function in life. You must make your free choice. Not everyone is capable of a Classical education. You must make your choice quite freely.” — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It… — GRiZ Copy Share Image
I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have the core classical… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music… — Matthew Sweet Copy Share Image
Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I… — Jim Sullivan Copy Share Image
Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
Regular church-goers are substantially more likely than non-attenders to read, to take newspapers and magazines, to listen to classical music, to attend… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I go back and research, say, every reference to the Gorgons, and I find what the classical writers said about them and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on Classical singing and composition,… — Kesha Rogers Copy Share Image
A classical liberal is someone who wants a society that maximizes peace, civility, tolerance, and well-being for everyone. One that opens opportunities… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
So a lot of what you see in the Baroque Cycle is me wanting to be one of those guys. In the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively.… — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
Growing up as a classical musician, you're taught a lot about outreach and about how people aren't being taught music in school.… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I feel that classical music should be a more recognizable part of everyone’s entertainment. It has been my hope that through live… — Jose Iturbi Copy Share Image
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