Classical Quotes · Page 4

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

— Wang Leehom

'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s.

— Howard Shore

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

— Felicity Kendal

I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.

— Ha-Joon Chang

I studied classical music in the Conservatory of Paris.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

— Lari White

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

— Elizabeth McGovern

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way…

— Jane Chen

A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at…

— Laila Robins

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

— Gustavo Dudamel

I'm trained in classical music, and my favourites have always been rock n' roll and blues, but I've grown up with different…

— Shruti Haasan

I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.

— Ry Cooder

I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play…

— Willie Nelson

With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or…

— Anna Meredith

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

— Guler Sabanci

“There are ominous signs about the future of classical music. The record companies are facing threats from piracy and unauthorized downloading. It’s…

— Renee Fleming

We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical…

— Kristin Davis

When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock &…

— Jimmy Page

On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling…

— DJ Spooky

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric:…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I understand that in people's eyes, classical music is kind of a lost and dying art, but in my eyes, it's like,…

— Owen Pallett

As more people get into indie bands and alternative music, they're also getting more into other genres that fit those categories, like…

— Hilary Hahn

“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence…

— Nuno Roque

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

— Aldous Huxley

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

— Alison Krauss

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

— Colin Greenwood

When we started the band, it was a classical group.

— Grace Chatto

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

— Kin Hubbard

“Do not look at mirage and look inside mirror”

— Dr V V Rao

I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.

— Caroline Shaw

In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat.

— Anonymous

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

— Jonny Greenwood

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

— Sarah Sutton

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

— Joan Armatrading

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

— Leila Josefowicz

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state

— Frank Zappa

The soundtrack for 'Mr. Fraud' is classical with a decent level of fusion.

— Gopi Sundar

Classical music is for listening but rock and roll is to have fun with.

— Dave Clark

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

— Jean-Michel Jarre