Classical Quotes · Page 5

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

— Kenny G

My objective is to master classical and modern music eventually.

— Kai Havertz

I have a fairly good collection of paintings, both classical and contemporary.

— Mohanlal

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

— Park Chan-wook

I play a lot of classical music around the house.

— Nancy Wilson

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

— Jane Siberry

I was a classical dancer and acting came naturally to me.

— Rimi Sen

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

— Janina Gavankar

Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract…

— Bryce Dessner

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably…

— Benjamin Carson

I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music.

— Ludovico Einaudi

Well, I very rarely watch classical adaptations, because they usually do very good books, and a lot of the things they do...…

— Jean Marsh

As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but…

— Idina Menzel

The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

— Frank Zappa

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as…

— Ravi Shankar

Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the…

— Brian Eno

In my 20s, I became obsessed with the role-playing game 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms,' named after a classical Chinese novel, and…

— Kim Young-ha

The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I like to incorporate classical songs that people know and throw a beat and some guitars on it to make it real…

— Alicia Keys

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through…

— Diane Kruger

In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of…

— Ravi Shankar

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic…

— Diane Paulus

It takes a lifetime and a half to master the classical guitar.

— Julian Bream

I've studied classical singing, but not to a great extent.

— Floor Jansen

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

— Zaha Hadid

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

— Renee Fleming

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

— Mark Pellegrino

Western classical music and classical dance gel beautifully.

— Shobana

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

— Nigel Kennedy

I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music.

— Andre Previn

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

— Susanna Phillips

Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.

— Robert McKee

The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I like - I actually love classical music very much.

— Julie Andrews

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

— Charles Hazlewood

I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

— Laila Robins

Classical dance is a growing and ever-evolving art.

— Shobana