Classical Quotes · Page 6

We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.

— Grace Chatto

Classical music thinks in centuries, not four-year terms.

— Stephen Hough

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

— Charles Rosen

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

— Peter Tork

I grew up with a lot of classical music around.

— Kemp Muhl

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

— Herb Alpert

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

— Oscar Isaac

Deutsche Grammophon really has a grasp of the classical repertoire.

— Hilary Hahn

We listen to a lot of classical and a lot of jazz, and so you get some funky notes here and there.…

— Synyster Gates

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

— Lee Konitz

If I switch on the radio and hear some nice classical music, I will sit and listen to it but I don't…

— Vera Lynn

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

— Peter Eisenman

I am really very fond of Indian classical music though I have spent my teenage years in Bahrain.

— Madhura Naik

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or…

— A. R. Rahman

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States,…

— Nigel Kennedy

I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and…

— Philippe Petit

There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds…

— Caroline Shaw

I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to…

— Nicolas Cage

We are fans of Mozart and Beethoven, as well 'South Park' and Borat. We believe that we can attract many people who…

— Aleksey Igudesman

I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical…

— Christine Woods

I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' - if…

— Charles Hazlewood

Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first…

— Suzi Quatro

I was introduced to classical music by my grandparents - my parents were mostly into folk and jazz. Even as a young…

— Chris Thile

I know that the classical world has resisted film composers throwing their hat into the classical concert music ring. And you know…

— James Newton Howard

My dad is into western classical and mother is an Indian classical singer.

— Tanishk Bagchi

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

— Dave Brubeck

I had had a classical education prior to that.

— Skitch Henderson

Any form of classical music is made for youth.

— Ilaiyaraaja

I've played classical violin since I was 5 years old.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.

— Lata Mangeshkar

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

— Birdy

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

— Damian Lewis

I have experienced heartbreak but not in a classical sense.

— Timothee Chalamet

I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

— Joseph Fiennes

“For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

— Floor Jansen

“Autumn is a classical music; when it begins, the gravity disappears!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I dont think anyone is going to toss me into a classical show.

— Renee Rapp

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

— Nas

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

— Benjamin Zander